Smetanina Quotes

#1. Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,
To draw nutrition, propagate and rot.

Alexander Pope

#2. Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Mary Wesley

#3. On my journey I have discovered that there is a huge difference between the traditional view of prayer and what the Bible teaches.

Paul Silway

#4. In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Douglas Adams

#5. Life is so strange
I don't know why
But somebody, somebody has to cry.

Elvis Costello

#6. Go in search of your Gift. The process of finding ourselves is called Love. The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

Paulo Coelho

#7. The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

Elisabeth Elliot

#8. Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.

Bryant McGill

#9. I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

Catherine Hardwicke

#10. What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

David Eagleman

#11. There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine.

Gerald F. Lieberman

#12. Think about this for a second. Why is it that we would not invest even a single dollar without diversifying it and managing risk, but do exactly the opposite, putting all of our eggs in one basket, with our regular income in our careers? - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Chris Lutz