Smith 160410 Quotes

I loved driving with Marlboro Man. I saw things I'd never seen before, things I'd never even considered in my two and a half decades of city life. For the first time ever, I began to grasp the concept of north, south, east, and west, though I imagine it would take another twenty-five years before I got them straight. I saw fence lines and gates made of welded iron pipe, and miles upon miles of barbed wire. I saw creeks--rocky, woodsy creeks that made the silly water hazard in my backyard seem like a little mud puddle. And I saw wide open land as far as the eye could see. I'd never known such beauty.
Marlboro Man loved showing me everything, pointing at pastures and signs and draws and lakes and giving me the story behind everything we saw. The land, both on his family's ranch and on the ranches surrounding it, made sense to him: he saw it not as one wide open, never-ending space, but as neatly organized parcels, each with its own purpose and history. "Betty Smith used to own this part of our ranch with her husband," he'd say. "They never had kids and were best friends with my grandparents." Then he'd tell some legend of Betty Smith's husband's grandfather, remembering such vivid details, you'd think he'd been there himself. I absorbed it all, every word of it. The land around him pulsated with the heartbeats of all who'd lived there before…and as if it were his duty to pay honor to each and every one of them, he told me their names, their stories, their relationship, the ~ Ree Drummond

Tylar," I interrupted her as she was now going on about how she hated when Amber would pick Preston up and hold her. "Does Trey have any birthmarks on his ass? ~ Andrea Smith

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do! ~ Ian Smith

When the symbols are 'public' they usually act in an oblique manner, revealing themselves as archetypal symbols, which though familiar, have their central meanings obscured as is usual in esoteric imagery. ~ Kenneth Coutts-Smith

Jesus was contemplative and activist, mystic and prophet, Spirit and form, God and human, absolute and relative, Creator and creature, existing for eternity and existing in time. ~ Amos Smith

The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. ~ Stanley Smith Stevens

Damon knew the truth. Stefan was dead all right - but he had been dead for hundreds of years. And it was true that he was a vampire, but calling him a demon was like calling Tinkerbell armed and dangerous. ~ L.J.Smith

My mother answers all my fan mail. ~ Patti Smith

Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy. ~ Betty Smith

Late at night especially, one's standards could slip unimaginably. ~ Drew Nellins Smith

The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith were reduced to atemporal moral teachings that were universal and unconditioned. Thus it turned out that what Jesus taught was something like Kant's categorical imperative - a universal ethics based on reason rather than a set of concrete practices related to a specific community. Liberal Christianity fostered ahistoricism by reducing Christianity to a universal, rational kernel of moral teaching. Along a more conservative, evangelical trajectory (and the Reformation is not wholly innocent here), it was recognized that Christians could not simply jettison the historical particularities of the Christian event: the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. However, there was still a quasi-Platonic, quasi-gnostic rejection of material history such that evangelicalism, while not devolving to a pure ahistoricism, become dominated by a modified ahistoricism we can call primitivism. Primitivism retains the most minimal commitment to God's action in history (in the life of Christ and usually in the first century of apostolic activity) and seeks to make only this first-century 'New Testament church' normative for contemporary practice. This is usually articulated by a rigid distinction between Scripture and tradition (the latter then usually castigated as 'the traditions of men' as opposed to the 'God-give' r ~ James K.A. Smith

one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

At one end of the national spectrum is white, shining peace - that city-on-a-hill concept. At the other end is black, raging, savage war at the foot of that hill. The space between is the gray zone where the haze of diplomacy and combat meet and bleed into one another. That's where the CIA works. ~ Jamie Smith

It's a question of what love gives you the right to do. ~ Zadie Smith

Chance; pure chance. But chance was a dull explanation because it denied the possibility of the paranormal, and people were often disappointed by dull explanations. Mystery and the unknown were far more exciting because they suggested that our world was not quite as prosaic as we feared it might be. Yet we had to adjure those temptations because they lead to a world of darkness and fear. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

It is absolutely essential to have a living visible example of what a Christian ought to be. ~ Judah Smith

There's nothing more, except that I usually sit down until the flames die down and try to think myself back into the past. ~ Dodie Smith

If what Granma Mary Rommely said is true, then it must be that no one ever dies, really. Papa is gone, but he's still here in many ways. He's here in Neeley who looks just like him and in Mama who knew him so long. He's here in his mother who began him and who is still living. Maybe I will have a boy some day who looks like Papa and has all of Papa's good without the drinking. And that boy will have a boy. And that boy will have a boy. It might be there is no real death. ~ Betty Smith

You might think that the most stolen vehicles are expensive sports vehicles or multipurpose passenger vehicles, but that's not always the case-HOW TO STOP YOUR CAR FROM BEING STOLEN, Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK ~ V J Smith

but death is the ultimate purpose of life. ~ Wilbur Smith

We're not just building a Temple here, the Lord is building us. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ~ Huston Smith

When I first saw you, you were like a flood of sunshine. All the others wanted to kill you. They thought I was crazy. They laughed ... "
He means the other Shadow Men, Jenny thought.
"But I knew, and I watched you. You grew up and got more beautiful. You were so different from anything in my world. The others just watched, but I wanted you. Not to kill or to use up the way
the way they do with humans sometimes here. I needed you."
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"I couldn't see anything else, couldn't hear anything else. All I could think about was you. I wouldn't let anyone else hurt you, ever. I knew I had to have you, no matter what happend. They said I was crazy with love. ~ L.J.Smith

I am saying to you that to me the Constitution of the United States is just as much from my Heavenly Father as the Ten Commandments ~ George Albert Smith

All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit. ~ Andrew Smith

You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it. ~ Hannah Whitall Smith

If I thought Mom and Dad wouldn't be looking out the window to see what had delayed us since driving up a few minutes ago, I'd definitely take you right here and now. ~ Andrea Smith

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa. ~ Jada Pinkett Smith

They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it. ~ Jaden Smith

Just because you're passionately interested in something doesn't mean it has to be your career. You might have to look for more than one passion. Some passions may afford a career and some may not. ~ Larry Smith

Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this. ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

I sincerely believe that there is nothing truly great in any man or woman except their character, their willingness to move beyond the realm of self and into a greater realm of selflessness. Giving back is the ultimate talent in life. That is the greatest trophy on my mantel. ~ Ozzie Smith

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother. ~ Liz Smith

It is because you are generous in spirit; and may I be like that; may I become like you - which unrealistic wish, to become the other, is such a true and revealing symptom of love, its most obvious clue, its unmistakable calling card. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States. ~ Shepard Smith

You have each other, thought Isabel.But was that enough? Even when one was in love, it was not really enough just to have the other person - not if one needed stimulation. The company of just one person could be reassuring, could stave off loneliness, but would it be enough for three months? ~ Alexander McCall Smith

The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil. ~ Pazaria Smith

little black boy on the bus with his toy dinosaur, his eyes wide & endless

his dreams possible, pulsing, & right there ~ Danez Smith

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan ~ Chuck Smith

So what motivates people to work hard every day to do things that will satisfy the economy's needs but not their own? Like so many thinkers, Smith believed that people want just one thing - happiness - hence economies can blossom and grow only if people are deluded into believing that the production of wealth will make them happy.14 If and only if people hold this false belief will they do enough producing, procuring, and consuming to sustain their economies. ~ Daniel M. Gilbert

Dislike required energy and a good memory for slights; geniality was so much less demanding, and at the end of the day felt better too. ~ Alexander McCall Smith

An angel of God never has wings ~ Joseph Smith Jr.

In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind. ~ Charlotte Smith

You have to bring your mind to the Word of God and not try to bring the Word of God to your mind. ~ Smith Wigglesworth

A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime. ~ Sydney Smith

Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring ... my desire. ~ L.J.Smith