Quotes of Sydney Smith

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That knuckle-end of England — that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.

- Sydney Smith

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“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ As powerful as your genetic combination is in determining the outcome of your life, your decisions are more powerful. You will ultimately look like your decisions. ”

- Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ The evolutionary algorithm of all life on earth is written in this universal language we call love. ”

- Wald Wassermann

“ Unrequited love’s a bore. ”

- Lorenz Hart

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. ”

- William Arthur Ward

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ The beautiful thing about love is that you just need to plant it once and nurture it and it shall bloom into blossoms that would cover the valleys. ”

- Hermann J. Steinherr

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Reading is life, Reading is knowledge, Reading Is Everything. ”

- Ezra Heft

“ Your big opportunity may be right where you are now. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ A drop of water shall be returned with a burst of spring. ”

- Pat Cher