Al Smith Quotes

Let Your Inhibitions Run Free

...it must be odd to have no ambition, not to want something more.

Writers are a superior breed. No one else can face so much rejection and still thrive.

Like your tastebuds, desires and goals are ever-changing. What used to work, might not do it for you anymore. The question is: Do you have the guts to do something about it?

We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!

Maybe with a little more danger ― but there's more to life than just trying to exist.

Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

More than weapons, we need a leader.

He is intelligent enough to get a job that would earn him good money, but too clever to want one.

On a wing and a prayer." (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost).

I couldn't imagine her leaving this world without ripping its fabric.

But I will never ask anyone from our village-from any village in Tlanth-to risk his or her life unless I'm willing to myself.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

You can choose what you believe, Shuffler, but you can't change what's true.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

It is hard, she thought, it is hard for us to think of people who dislike us because none of us, in our heart, believes that we deserve the hatred of others.

I've been in love and you'll never know

I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.

Everything you are used to, once done long enough, starts to seem natural, even though it might not be.

Who in the universe halts when the enemy tells them to?

My cat is an ungrateful brat. -Nellie McKay

Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?

DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME, JEZEBEL! DON'T YOU DARE! Or I'll follow you to the next world and KILL you.

It's not the dying but the manner of it.

At the last moment she thought, I'm not ready.But she already knew the answer to that.Nobody was ever ready.

You never know, until it happens, what you will owe the dead.

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none.

Your pain and anger will pass, but the guilt would remain with you for always.

I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame...

One of the many problems with aging is that you begin to think of yourself as a slob because your birthday suit can never be cleaned or pressed no matter how spotted or wrinkled it gets

Old age is having the name of a chiropractor in your wallet. It's cutting out coupons for the zeal of discounted small items and the practice of fine motor skills.

Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

She had not expected, out in the world, to find herself quite so much the wrong sort of person.

Life is not a one act play

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.

There is not a lost piece of yourself that can't be found in a good novel.

Once again discovered: Do what you do because you enjoy. If expect others to give credit or honor your work, you are due for disappointment

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.

Idolatry involves putting the things we love in the place of God or seeing God as a means of getting the things that we want, and that's the second great struggle of our lives.

People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

It is perhaps rather fine, after all, being dead. Highly underrated in the modern western world.

The most basic rule of editing is that if you can’t bear to read it, no one else can either. So when you find yourself skimming, commit murder.

Men have enslaved each other since they invented gods to forgive them for doing it.

That was the trouble with people in general: they were surprisingly unrealistic in their expectations.

If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

Logic, it is often said, is the study of valid arguments. It is a systematic attempt to distinguish valid arguments from invalid arguments.

Aura, " he whispered, "I wish I could wipe away just one of your tears. Then I'dfeel like a person again. Like I'm something more than a bunch of light.