Smyth Quotes

#1. With others, I feel betrayed that those who had the authority in the Church to stop Brendan Smyth failed to act on the evidence I gave them. However, I also accept that I was part of an unhelpful culture of deference and silence in society and the Church, which thankfully is now a thing of the past.

Sean Brady

#2. I deeply regret that those with the authority and responsibility to deal appropriately with Brendan Smyth failed to do so, with tragic and painful consequences for those children he so cruelly abused.

Sean Brady

#3. I didn't know whether this Mr. Smyth was behaving like white people, or if it just showed something vile about all people.

Sue Monk Kidd

#4. She's life, and I'm death. Prescott Burlington-Smyth is everything I want to be. A storm moving out of a shit situation at the speed of light, not looking back to spare a glance at the casualties of her actions. How

L.J. Shen

#5. Anderson!" Mr. Smyth barked from across the tent.

Katie McCoy

#6. The only people who had authority within the Church to stop Brendan Smyth from having contact with children were his Abbot in the Monastery in Kilnacrott and his Religious Superiors in the Norbertine Order.

Sean Brady

#7. I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#8. There's a danger in loving somebody too much, and it's sad when you know it's your heart you can't trust.

Patty Smyth

#9. Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

Sandra Dee

#10. I want you. I want you now, in every way a man can want a woman.

Julia Quinn

#11. I always think of "Popeye" and "Barney Google" as quintessential comic strips in that old rollicky, slapstick way we've sort of lost.

Bill Watterson

#12. I have often noticed that when Fate has a phenomenal run of ill luck in store for you, she begins by dropping a rare piece of good fortune into your lap, thereby enhancing the artistic effect of the sequel.

Ethel Smyth

#13. When I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire ... !

Ethel Smyth

#14. If a young dog strays up the aisle during church no one says anything, no one does anything, but, none the less, he soon becomes aware that something is wrong. Even so, as the distance between myself and the hearthrug diminished, did I become aware that something was very wrong indeed.

Ethel Smyth

#15. The devil is everywhere under the skin of things, searching for a way into the light.

J.M. Coetzee

#16. Crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

Ethel Smyth

#17. It's not about making the right choice.
It's about making a choice and making it right.

J.R. Rim

#18. Acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.

Ethel Smyth

#19. [On golf:] ... though aware I could never be more than a humble potterer, it was impossible to repress the wild upsurgings of hope known to all middle-aged beginners ...

Ethel Smyth

#20. I don't want to lose you, but I don't want to use you just to have someone by my side.

Patty Smyth

#21. I can imagine nothing more tiresome than always to speak of people as if they were listening at the door.

Ethel Smyth

#22. The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Winston Churchill

#23. If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. The charms of seclusion are seldom combined with the conveniences of civilization.

Ethel Smyth

#25. I think the media is dangerously close to creating their own product. They used to cover the product, which was whatever's happening.

Roger Ailes

#26. No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.

Ethel Smyth

#27. When I look at sales teams, I start to see a pattern. The team members with a low quality of mind have lower figures and the ones with high quality of mind have higher figures.

Damian Mark Smyth

#28. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth

#29. The majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Ethel Smyth

#30. Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

Frank Miller

#31. Night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.

Ethel Smyth

#32. Poetry is a story
that is so good,
It doesn't need
complete sentences.

John Smyth

#33. I feel I must fight for [my music], because I want women to turn their minds to big and difficult jobs; not just to go on hugging the shore, afraid to put out to sea.

Ethel Smyth

#34. If you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

Ethel Smyth