Judy Smith Quotes

#1. I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it.

Isaac Parker

#2. PEACEFULNESS: Do not allow life's challenges to disturb your tranquility. Life is far too precious to be wasted on nonessential issues.

Judy Smith

#3. Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

John Milton

#4. Here you had the top professional soldier in Japan, and to think he didn't know how to kill himself with a gun! They took him straight to the hospital, he got the best care the American medical team could give him, recovered, then was tried and hanged. It's a terrible way to die.

Haruki Murakami

#5. Self confident is the best formula for success.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I get it," Richard said. "But is that all we are? Just digital Crips and Bloods?

Neal Stephenson

#7. Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

H.P. Lovecraft

#8. For me, it's been a treat to interact with authors who were publishing when I was a young reader. Judy Blume once gave me a pep talk at a writing conference. I had a short story featured in the same anthology as Beverly Cleary. Magic.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#9. By being an elite athlete a lot of people think that you can go away or go places and get away with things. I'm more of the laid-back person. I don't have to go and skip the line. I don't have a problem waiting.

Andre Johnson

#10. No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Anthony Trollope

#11. The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever.

Ryan Bigge

#12. Some people are like that: they are made of goodness, their every look spreads tenderness, and from their hands caresses fall all the year round.

Patrick Chamoiseau

#13. Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

George Cukor

#14. It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

Friedrich Schiller

#15. Most of us carry at least a weak sense of a correlation between poetry and human possibility that cannot be realized by poems. The poet, by his very claim to be a maker of poems, is therefore both an embarrassment and accusation.

Ben Lerner

#16. If you can't help it, don't think about it

Carmel Myers