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Sydney Smith Quotes

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

Topics

Good Happiness Health Great House

I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

Beginning Song Think Go Young Never

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

Shadow People Treat Help Sunlight

I'm an independent fashion house.

Matthew Williamson

Fashion House Independent

I've held my silence when I probably shouldn't have. But I was in the minority, a woman writing SF, and I was afraid of career backlash. I was afraid of being excluded or losing opportunities if I didn't play nice.

Woman Silence Losing Writing Career

The eight years of war since 9/11 had meant several Christmases away from home for most of these men. For soldiers at war, there's comforting continuity in the traditions and inevitability of Christmas.

Stanley A. McChrystal

Home Men War Christmas Soldiers

I was about 14 when I became a Christian. I had been going to youth group, and I'd heard the Gospel preached, and then suddenly it all started to click. God opened my eyes to see Jesus for who He really was. After I trusted Christ, the Lord changed my entire perspective on everything.

God Eyes Perspective Youth Christian

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Roger Rosenblatt

Good Passion Good And Evil Evil Kind

The colonists' first protest against the British unfolded on Aug. 14, 1765 at the Liberty Tree. A magnificent elm towering over the other trees nearby, the Liberty Tree stood at the corner of what is now Washington and Essex Streets in downtown Boston.

Tree Trees Liberty Now Washington

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Trying You Outside Need Always Out

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

Nature Happiness Fight Obstacles Own

I'm a workaday writer.

Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.

Annie Jump Cannon

Stars Universe Structure Studies

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