Al Smith Quotes

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

... there is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love. And most of those minds are shut to what marriage really means.

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

If she was going to remain an engaged lady, then she would make the most of it, and one of the ways to do this would be to enjoy her free time.

He evidently did not care that they were in full view of a cluster of dog-owners walking their dogs. He stopped and took her in his arms, kissing her passionately and urgently.

It had started with the moon, inaccessible poem that it was.

In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.

Music is powerful. It sets the mind and body and soul free in a way that I've need fully been able to understand. Maybe because it's not meant to be understood. It's simply meant to be experienced.

Music is powerful. It sets the mind and body and soul free in a way that I've never fully been able to understand. Maybe because it's not meant to be understood. It's simply meant to be experienced.

She let herself fall backwards into the music, and it was like falling in a dream, without fear.It was like being a raindrop falling into the ocean that had started you.

Tell Hugh, " she whispered.Tell Hugh your freaking self! He's right here! And you're not going anywhere.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

Lose control once in a while, and your emotions will make your strong. Keep your heart open, and they’ll make you invincible.

All I needed for the mind was to be led to new stations. All I needed for the heart was to visit a place of greater storms.

Holiness is God's "special gift" to His people who believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the Cross. Holiness is the everyday work of the Holy Spirit in the heart and life of believers.

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.

Don't let success go to your heads and don't let failure into your hearts.

Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

Being a ruler is, contrary to popular notions, a calling of self-sacrifice. That is, if one wants to be a good ruler.

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary

The difference being that people fear us. When people fear you, you have power.

Aphrodite just kept smiling.Because she was just doing what a goddess does-the same way that a tornado rips houses apart or a fire burns down a forest.

The power of the Blood of Jesus, the Word of God & the name of Jesus are the believers weapons of defense against the Devil.

I'm always in Awe of God's Greatness, His M. O. (Method of Operation), His timing, His Might and His Power. He's God all by Himself!!! Abba, I love You.

This is the word of the LORD saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

I guess the whole world is made up of things coming together and things falling apart,

Brave old world.

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.

I'm just so tired of life being something that happens to me. That's not how it's supposed to work. I'm supposed to make my own life.

Here we have both a paradox, and a beautiful symmetry. It is a duality. I am the earth and you are the moon, and you are the earth and I am the moon.

Anything can happen, Pet. If there's one thing for certain, it's that nothing is for certain.

Lisa cried until there was nothing left to cry about.

Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your life.

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

You got to face your evil, Hoodoo, " Zeke said. "If people don't face the danger that's seeking them, evil will find them first.

Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, "It was involuntary. They think my boat.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one

The thing is and I know this is going to sound strange- that I seem to love you sort of desperately.

Human’s aren’t concerned with reality, merely their perceptions of it.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

That was your delusion, not my reality.

...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

Change the way you think and you will change the way you feel.

But everything is how it should be. How's that for wisdom?

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

I never realized before that taking care of someone makes you love them more than when they take care of you.

Elena gasped back, "I can touch the ground!""I can see you touching it!", Bonnie exclaimed with tears of joy.

This isn’t fiction, the man says. This is the Post Office.