Lewis B. Smedes Quotes

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Lewis B. Smedes

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 20, 1921 - December 19, 2002

Topics

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Head Start graduates are more likely to graduate from high school and less likely to need special education, repeat a grade, or commit crimes in adolescence.

Joe Baca

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There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

John C. Maxwell

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Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

Andrew Shue

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The singers who are the most honest are the ones who become immortalized.

Tony Bennett

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What we're doing here in America is we're making women choose between the family they love and the job that they need. No other nation on the planet is making these choices. In other countries, they've put politics aside and looked at the facts. When women succeed, the world succeeds. We're losing sight of that here in the USA.

Tom Perez

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I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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At Berkeley I had my first encounter with real professional scientists.

Robert B. Laughlin

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It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis, fevers, all that - and it somehow turned into this charmed life. I don't know exactly how.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

Jason Derulo

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Bollywood stars are versatile; they not only act, but each one has the dance skills of John Travolta in 'Saturday Night Fever.'

Christian Louboutin

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As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying.

Christina Hendricks

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All of us deserve a greater peace of mind, knowing that our children are better protected wherever they are.

Bob Ney

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