Smited Quotes

#1. Is that a nautilus?" he asked. "Close, but no. It's an ammonite." "An ammonite? What's an ammonite? Sounds like an Old Testament people overdue for smiting." "Ammonites are not a biblical people," she replied in a tone of strained forbearance. "But they have been smited." "Smote

Tessa Dare

#2. Idleness is paralysis.

Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

#3. There's a long and sacred history of the use of X to symbolize the name of Christ, and from its origin, it has meant no disrespect.

R.C. Sproul

#4. Mankind must live in harmony with one another.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I always liked performing. I always liked being in front of people. That's one of the things I loved about law; we had mock trials, and I got to go up and state my case. But I took an acting class, and after my first class, I was hooked.

Ashley Greene

#6. He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

Mary Gaitskill

#7. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.

Beth Neff

#8. The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.

Edward Hirsch

#9. Shaking my head, I watched the cat run under the van and stare at us with black
eyes. I wasn't a cat person. They always seemed like they were secretly plotting
the destruction of the human race. And despite the cutesy name Zoe had given it,
this one struck me as slightly evil.

Erin Lynn

#10. The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

Samuel Butler

#11. I grow tired of intelligence having such a limited manifestation in movies - "intelligence" usually meaning coastal, with a certain level of formal education.

Edward Norton