Smitings Quotes

#1. His conscience smote him. As smitings go, it wasn't much, his conscience being in poor fighting condition.

Loretta Chase

#2. Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.

James Van Fleet

#3. He knew stripping in front of him was hard on her. Putting herself under his scrutiny and risking rejection was painful. What she didn't seem to understand was that he would never reject her. Ever.

Elle Aycart

#4. Healthy" and "diseased," as Susan Sontag points out ... are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

Naomi Wolf

#5. I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Kirk Hammett

#6. Utopias have their value
nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities
but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.

Isaiah Berlin

#7. The woods were my Ritalin. Nature calmed me, focused me, and yet excited my senses.

Richard Louv

#8. No, what's troubling is the gap between the magnitude of our challenges and the smallness of our politics
the ease with which we are distracted by the petty and trivial, our chronic avoidance of tough decisions, our seeming inability to build a working concensus to tackle any big problem.

Barack Obama

#9. The whole world is now one vast uncontrolled experiment - the way it always was, Crake would have said - and the doctrine of unintended consequences is in full spate.

Margaret Atwood

#10. The attorney general should be enforcing the law, not policy.

Michael Moriarty

#11. I had a mother that told me what to do all my life, and I traded that in for a wife. We got married two years out of high school which is not what you tell your kids to do, right?

Rick Scott