Smiley Blanton Quotes

#1. I see no reason why I should not live on indefinitely just as I have done, and on the whole I am more comfortable here than in Purgatory, a place that I imagine to be like the suburbs of London.

Mary Borden

#2. To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Smiley Blanton

#3. To his inner ear, the cardinal speaks. He says, I saw you, Crumb, when you were at Elvetham: scratching your balls in the dawn and wondering at the violence of the king's whims. If he wants a new wife, fix him one. I didn't, and I am dead.

Hilary Mantel

#4. A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Smiley Blanton

#5. If you no longer believe in the God in whom you believed in before, this comes from the fact that there was something wrong with your belief, and you must strive to understand better that which you call God.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.

Smiley Blanton

#7. On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Smiley Blanton

#9. All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

Smiley Blanton

#10. and Mathilde still had

Donna Tartt

#11. Someone once said that unforgiveness was like a poison you drink while hoping for someone else to die.

Jennifer Heng

#12. Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

Deepak Chopra

#13. Things that upset a terrier may pass virtually unnoticed by a Great Dane.

Smiley Blanton

#14. You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

Smiley Blanton

#15. It is very often asserted that fear is destructive. Yet this is not entirely true; when fear is felt about things that truly threaten security, it is protective. It is very fortunate that humans have an almost unlimited capacity for learning fears; otherwise we would have been eliminated long ago.

Smiley Blanton

#16. When I was a child, Mama had the best voice of all the members of the church. She had loved to sing. Her words had soared like an angel's over the swells of the organ. In fact, I now suspected, her entire theology had been taken from the hymnal.

Siri Mitchell

#17. I always say 300 is a sci-fi movie as much as anything. It's like that could be another planet. It doesn't have to be earth necessarily. That's like when people get so wrapped up in the politics of 300 I always go, "By the way, that's a sci-fi movie. It's not really a historical film."

Zack Snyder

#18. Men err when they think they can be inhuman exploiters in their business life, and loving husbands and fathers at home.

Smiley Blanton

#19. Because we are no different from any animal, any insect or germule. We are not special, Cal. You, me, we all came from nothing, and that's exactly where we're all going one day, maybe soon, whether we like it or not.

Brian Williams

#20. That's when a woman finds herself
when she's in love. I don't care if she is old or fat or homely or prosy. She feels that little flutter under her ribs and she drops from the tree like a ripe plum.

Christopher Morley

#21. And I think of us, all the people, and the masks we wear, the masks we hide behind and the masks that reveal. I imagine people pretending to be what they truly are, and discovering that other people are so much more and so much less than they imagined themselves to be or present themselves as. And

Neil Gaiman

#22. I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

Muhammad Ali

#23. Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

Joni Rodgers

#24. The first and finest lesson that parents can teach their children is faith and courage.

Smiley Blanton

#25. Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.

Smiley Blanton

#26. No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence

Smiley Blanton

#27. In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

Timothy B. Tyson