Zak Smith Quotes & Sayings

The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels. — Bridget Of Sweden

To my second-oldest daughter, Megan, for her strength of spirit, her leadership ability and her constancy. Meg, you're a light to everyone who knows you, someone capable of great things because at twelve years old you've already learned the power of self-discipline. I can always depend on you to choose the right and stay the course, and that has been an incredible blessing. If you forget everything else I've ever taught you, remember this: my love is everlasting. — Brenda Novak

There are many who live Life in Fear, without taking risks. They don't take Chances. Alas! Not only are they missing chances, they are missing Life itself! -RVM — R.v.m.

I see the world ... and call it by what I feel it should be, not by what others who in their dull reveries think it is. — Kathleen Kent

[...] the primal, animal sense of 'the other,' which may have evolved for the detection of threat, can take on a lofty, even transcendent function in human beings, as a biological basis for religious passion and conviction, where the 'other,' the 'presence,' becomes the person of God. — Oliver Sacks

I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow. — Stacy London

Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. — Vincent D'Onofrio

Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Most of us, I suspect, prefer our teachers to be of the Nice Guy variety. — Ken Wilber

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run. — Kurt Vonnegut

I had believed myself superior to my ancestors. But all it took was the proper amount of pain for me to return to the traditions of old. For even thinking such a thing, I am sorry. I apologize to you as a Wakandian, as a human being, and I apologize to my nation. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every person's hollow spaces---those things that kept us cold at night and that place where we retreated when no one was looking---and all it could do was unlock what was already there. — Roshani Chokshi

Every writer owes something to Holmes.
T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929 — T. S. Eliot

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room. — Ron Carlson

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big. — Peja Stojakovic