Huston Smith Quotes

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

Huston Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 31, 1919 - December 30, 2016

Topics

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Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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Godspell was a good leap for me, it was a good shop window.

Jeremy Irons

GoodMeWindowLeapShop

I love my closet, and I always buy things that I love 100 percent. I'm very organized, and I like everything sorted by colors, even the shoes. It's important to know exactly where everything is when you walk into the closet.

Melania Trump

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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Maya Angelou

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I don't usually get star struck, but I met Sir Paul McCartney randomly on Sunset Boulevard a few years ago, and I lost it! I couldn't breathe, I couldn't think, and I didn't know how to speak. It was crazy. He was nice enough to talk to my family and me for 10 minutes, but I remember babbling away about nonsense.

Sterling Knight

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I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so I'd love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

LoveHeroActionThinkPerfectPlay

I can have as many bad days as anyone. But I choose to say, 'I'm just fine.'

Mary J. Blige

ChooseBadI CanSayBad DaysDays

All the old forms of discrimination, the forms of discrimination we supposedly left behind, are now perfectly legal once you've been labeled a felon.

Michelle Alexander

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To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Jean de la Bruyere

PeopleSpeakThinkDreamSilent

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Dennis Prager

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I started in the mailroom, literally, as an intern... in 1974. The legislator I was working for at the time said, 'I want you to get your law degree and come back here and get elected and be the first woman governor.' I kind of took that guy seriously - I thought that sounded like a pretty good idea.

Claire McCaskill

GoodTimeWomanLawThoughtYou

I try to find creative ways to put ideas out to make the ground fertile for organizers.

Boots Riley

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