Spaulding Smails Quotes & Sayings

I am always nearby, when someone wants to realize their destiny — Paulo Coelho

My students should be afraid: choosing what kind of work you'll do to a great extent means choosing who you'll be. — Maureen Corrigan

I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box. — John Kennedy Toole

If you want to find Him, SEARCH HIS WORD! If you will read His Word with the steady resolve to find God within its pages, I am able to tell you upon its precious word that you will not seek Him in vain. — L.R. Shelton Jr.

There are certain functions that the family performs. In the first place the family provides society with an orderly means of reproduction, while at the same time the norms of marriage control the potentially disruptive forces of sexuality. Second, the family provides physical and economic support for the child during the early years of dependence. The child receives its primary socialization in the family, learning the essential ideas and values required for adult life. — Adrian Wilson

I tune everything out. — Joshua Ledet

I've been blessed to be one of those guys who's looked at as a fashion-forward type of guy. — Dwyane Wade

It is less than five hundred years since an entire half of the world was discovered. It is less than two hundred years since the discovery of the last continent. The sciences of chemistry and physics go back scarcely one century. — Jeff VanderMeer

Methamphetamine is so Flowers for Algernon: All that super-human cerebral ability fades to limited physical activities like stapling carpet scraps to the wall or masturbation antics worthy of The Guinness Book of World Records. — Clint Catalyst

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within. — Mahatma Gandhi

Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts
but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. — Joseph Campbell

There was a sudden stillness like the gap between ticks on a clock, but the next tick never coming. — Sadie Jones

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. — Louis Leakey