J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not.

Maybe it's easier to talk to someone who won't ever actually hear what you say.

The only thing that makes me sad is that I shall be leaving Africa when I die. I love Africa, which is my mother and my father. When I am dead, I shall miss the smell of Africa

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Sweetheart the doctor gave you the okay, and your friends will be there. It's okay to live your life. You can't be afraid at every turn.

Feed the truth. Starve the lie.

The woman seems ready to be pleased with the world.

History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.

Du Bois sighed theatrically. “It’s as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.

People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming, but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with.

If I let myself care, all I'll feel is pain.

Awakening will be sudden and shocking. You and I must be there for her awakening. We won't be there for (her?) later on. That's for other hands to do.

There were good and bad kinds of weakness in men, and she had come to the conclusion that the key was to know which kind you were dealing with.

You only go through High School once, but if you go through the way we did, that's enough.

I just want to this about that.

I was born the same year the greatest automobile in the history of automobiles was created, the 1957 Chevrolet. Thank God only one of us had tail fins.

Make peace with yourself and you make peace with the world. - Charmainism

Human laws pattern divine laws, but divine laws use only originals.

Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.

Mind the gap, Jack

That kind of inability to improve is really very rare. That kind of consistency is miraculous, in a way.

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void!

God can accomplish more through one message in the fulness of the Spirit than through hundreds given in the energy of the flesh.

The fulness of the Spirit is not a question of our getting more of the Holy Spirit, but rather of the Holy Spirit getting more of us.

Anybody can lose, ' cautioned Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. 'You need to remember that every time you win.

Julian said the world was evil and horrible - remember? But then he proved himself that it wasn't

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.

You don’t love a girl because of beauty.You love her because she sings a song only you can understand.

We choose to live life to the fullest because it is in our best interest to do so. - Charmainism

It was easy to make a difference to other people’s lives, so easy to change the little room in which people lived their life.

What is most admirable about firefighters, is there reliability. When they are called, they come

She half suspected that he had had been ordered by contract to look mouth-watering at all times. If he hadn't, it was really rude of him to persist in it. It was distracting.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.

What an excellent father you have, girls!' said she, when the door was shut. 'Such joys are scarce since the good Lord saw fit to close the gates of Hell and doom the dead to walk amongst us.

Every good gift and every perfect present comes from God. He is out Father who will always love His children.

No, that was my privilege.

The loneliness of command had made Eisenhower emotionally self-sufficient.

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.

Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

If you're 5-minutes early, you're late "How to always be on time

When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting

Tolerance was like one of those soothing creams—it drew out inflammation, it did away with the pain.

...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

The main thing we can learn from The Lord of the Rings is that we who are in a position to save the world (by which I mean all of us) do so primarily to save our friends.

I hate that question, “Are you okay?” It’s like asking someone if they think you look fat. You’re almost guaranteed to get a lie.