Samuel Smiles Quotes

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Samuel Smiles

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: December 23, 1812 - April 16, 1904

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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Jimmy Carter

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If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

Jim Parrack

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I was raised Catholic, and I can get incredibly guilty about mistakes.

Matt Mullenweg

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I only have one idol: John Lennon.

Michael Hirst

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If you have only 95 minutes of material, make an only 95-minute movie. Amazing how often that's forgotten.

Stephen Hunter

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My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.

Stanley Donen

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If I can laugh with people, it makes me feel safe with them. If I feel someone has no sense of humour, I find it really scary. I do it with the kids as well: put on stupid voices to lighten up the spirit or gee them along to do something.

Julia Davis

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If you can't build a relationship with your customers, you're in big trouble. If you can remember the numbers from the reports and spreadsheets you spent hours poring over in your office, but you can't picture the faces of your customers - you're in big trouble.

Jon Taffer

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Our target customers are people in their 20s. Old people wanted to be 21 again, and young people wanted to be 21 forever.

Do Won Chang

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You know, my mother's beautiful, my dad was a really handsome man, and there was a lot of talk about looks when I was growing up.

Courteney Cox

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To not see black or Latina women as famous in my industry is crazy! I have to talk about it.

Ashley Graham

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I have hair that I audition with, my sitcom hair which is a curly wig. I have my long chic hair that I wear to my son's school so they know I'm not playing around. I always tell people that my husband gets a different woman every night when I come home from 'The View.' Hair makes you feel a certain way, like putting a power suit on.

Sherri Shepherd

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