George Smathers Quotes

#1. The outcome can truly determine whether our homes will be destroyed, whether our children will be torn from their mothers, trained as conspirators and turned against their parents, their home and their church.

George Smathers

#2. Ranger was not husband material. He was a heart-stopping handsome Latino, dark-skinned and dark-eyed. He was strong inside and out, an enigma who kept his life scars pretty much hidden.

Janet Evanovich

#3. Disagreements don't cause disunity, a lack of forgiveness does.

Loren Cunningham

#4. Thinking about her, knowing that she was so close and completely out of reach just killed me.

J. Lynn

#5. I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.

George Smathers

#6. Of the fellows least likely to be president, you'd have to vote Jack No. 1.

George Smathers

#7. But to make a long story short, I decided that I was going to run, and I announced that I was going to run for president in Florida, I would be the favorite son from Florida, and that would stop Johnson and Kennedy from dividing up the state.

George Smathers

#8. I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinner. Then, if my wife and I have no previous plans, we decide what to do for the evening.

Chaim Potok

#9. I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier.

George Smathers

#10. The pilot came back and said he had just heard that Kennedy was shot.

George Smathers

#11. Just go. When you're on your deathbed you're gonna wish you could get back all the time you spent waiting on other people.

David Wong

#12. We mortals hear only the news, and know nothing at all.

Homer

#13. The quality of your life is in direct proportion to the quality of your relationships.

Anthony Robbins

#14. I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

Mehcad Brooks

#15. God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

Ezra Taft Benson

#16. Anyway, so here I was caught between Johnson on the one side, who was my leader, I was his whip, and here was my dear friend, personal friend, Kennedy, and they're going to go into my state and ruin it. What am I going to do?

George Smathers

#17. Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

George Smathers

#18. Thrice cursed are the weak whose insecurity makes them vile, for they shall serve and suffer.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#19. That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate

C. G. Jung

#20. Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

George Smathers

#21. The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason.

George Smathers

#22. I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward

Tupac Shakur

#23. Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.

Horace

#24. When your heart's been cut out, how's it going to feel knowing that you're the one who wielded the knife?

Peter David