Smeding Engines Quotes

#1. Take your light and take your love into the world as the only weapons that we need to make this world truly glorious, truly beautiful, and astonish all of life.

Hafsat Abiola

#2. We do not possess an 'ego.' We are possessed by the idea of one.

Wei Wu Wei

#3. You make me wish I had a soul so I could be worthy of you.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?

Edan Lepucki

#5. Civilization is very fragile, all it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals. Our base natures can take over very fast. We can forget that we are sentient beings, with laws and codes and ethics.

Amish Tripathi

#6. In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#7. There is only one courage and that is the courage to go on dying to the past, not to collect it, not to accumulate it, not to cling to it. We all cling to the past and because we cling to the past we become unavailable to the present.

Rajneesh

#8. We seem weak because we want to.

Victoria Aveyard

#9. Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small area indoors and stuff the ball into a ring with Madonna's dress hanging on it.

Dan Jenkins

#10. How much choice the animals technically had was far less important than how much choice they felt they had

Sheena Iyengar

#11. Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind.

Hamilton Wright Mabie

#12. A lot of people give in to those pressures and let others influence the process on their second albums because they want to achieve the success they had with their first again, but they don't know how to do it.

Vanessa Carlton

#13. The secret of being a successful writer is
write. Every writer deserves that chance.

Millicent Ashby

#14. Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.

Daniel Alarcon

#15. What's happened with computer technology is perfectly timed for someone with my set of skills. I tell stories with pictures. What I love about CGI is that if I can think it, it can be put on the screen.

Frank Miller