Huston Smith Quotes

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Huston Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FutureHistoryTimeBestBetterOut

If you try to be funny, you're not being funny.

John Gordon Sinclair

FunnyYouTryBeing FunnyBeing

Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.

Robert Reich

MoneyManagementLawyersGamesOut

To me, I have my friends who I've known my whole life, and I can count them on one hand. They're people I went to school with, my mum's friends' daughters. You know?

Rita Ora

LifeSchoolPeopleMeFriendsYou

I feel like girls should dress down a little bit on the holidays, even though the instinct is to get really dressed up.

Chris Benz

DressHolidaysFeelDownDressedUp

I'm a tomboy at heart. I always like to say that I'm an ordinary girl doing extraordinary things.

Ciara

GirlHeartDoingSayExtraordinary

It's important for Americans to know what the guys fighting the wars have been experiencing, not just from the perspective of a talking-head politician or a four-star general.

Brandon Webb

PerspectiveFightingKnowImportant

My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking '40s, Brie looking younger in the future.

Brie Larson

FutureIdentityChildLookingGoUp

Whether 'Avatar' is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick 'District 9', released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race.

Annalee Newitz

YearYouDebateDownAlienMatter

Wind energy can and will play one of the most important roles in saving the world of tomorrow, today.

Tulsi Tanti

TodayTomorrowWindWorldEnergy

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Todd Barry

EndDoingUpInvolvedTeachingDid

Many people don't think that the poor in the developing world can do work on a computer. They won't say it explicitly. But they think it's too sophisticated.

Leila Janah

WorkPeopleWorldThinkSayPoor

While we read history we make history.

George William Curtis

HistoryMakeReadWhile

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