Sydney Smith Quotes

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

Sydney Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TruthGreatDangerousMustDeal

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

Ander Crenshaw

AmericaPlaceTradeGlobalEssential

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.

May-Britt Moser

GoodFocusExcellencePerfectionYou

You always give credit where credit is due - to high school coaches, college coaches - but my dad, the foundation that he built with me, is where all of this came from. The speed, the determination, the mindset, just the natural belief that you can do anything you put your mind to, it all comes from my dad.

Robert Griffin III

DeterminationSchoolMindCollegeMe

You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.

Matthew Heineman

WinBattleYouGunsAgainstIdea

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

John Zorn

PeopleToughSomeoneHandsYouGo

But the world is ever more interdependent. Stock markets and economies rise and fall together. Confidence is the key to prosperity. Insecurity spreads like contagion. So people crave stability and order.

Tony Blair

ConfidenceTogetherPeopleInsecurity

I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

DeathDesireTwoSalesmanBecause

What I responded to, on the page, was the way a poem could liberate, by means of a word's setting, through subtleties of timing, of pacing, that word's full and surprising range of meaning. It seemed to me that simple language best suited this enterprise.

Louise Gluck

BestSimpleMeLanguageMeaningWay

I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.

Diane Lane

RelationshipKnowKindComfortable

If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.

Dick Van Patten

GoodFatherPetMeSnakeSaturday

I had two great art teachers at school, but even they tried to tell me it was too hard a world. But that made being an artist even more attractive.

Cornelia Parker

GreatArtSchoolMeWorldArtist

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

Conor Oberst

LoveGoodbyeThinkYouKnowNice

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