Lillian Smith quote: "To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely."

To find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality...
LILLIAN SMITH

Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal p...
LILLIAN SMITH

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has ...
LILLIAN SMITH

Faith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the...
LILLIAN SMITH

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, th...
LILLIAN SMITH

Rich folks always talk hard times.
LILLIAN SMITH

The human heart dares not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey...
LILLIAN SMITH

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritari...
LILLIAN SMITH

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, the...
LILLIAN SMITH

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind y...
LILLIAN SMITH

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
LILLIAN SMITH

We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
LILLIAN SMITH

Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
LILLIAN SMITH

No journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance...
LILLIAN SMITH

Each of us has a piece of the puzzle,
LILLIAN SMITH

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritari...
LILLIAN SMITH

Always have some project underway an ongoing project that goes over from day to day and thus makes e...
LILLIAN TROLL

Things start out as hopes and end up as habbits.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

You lose your manners when you're poor.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they wer...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
LILLIAN CARTER

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanti...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions
LILLIAN HELLMAN

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Cynics are made, not born.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
LILLIAN DICKSON

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tic...
LILLIAN CARTER

Good fathers make good sons
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
LILLIAN CARTER

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.
LILLIAN GISH

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.
LILLIAN RUSSELL

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
LILLIAN GISH

I can not and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Christmas Eve The soft light from a stable door Lies on the midnight lands; The wise men's star...
LILLIAN COX

People change and forget to tell each other.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself some day.
LILLIAN CARTER

Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us f...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that k...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Was it always in my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success become...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

The only thing good about it is you're not dead.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin."
LILLIAN CARTER

God forgives those who invent what they need.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Mount Saint John is a good place. It brought me and my son back together.
LILLIAN WILLIAMS

Freeway lane capacity was overestimated erroneously.
LILLIAN HAMES

You may not have the power to change the whole world ,but you have the power to change someones whol...
LILLIAN L.ELIE

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

When your down people always expect you to look down. if not they think everything is Ok when it's f...
LILLIAN L.ELIE

There are people who eat earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant
LILLIAN HELLMAN

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much,...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

God helps all the children as they move into a time of life they do not understand and must struggle...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!
LILLIAN CAULDWELL

I was able to see him again without (him) being in a casket.
LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I wi...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a mi...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of h...
LILLIAN GISH

Young man, if God had wanted you to see me that way, he would have put your eyes in your bellybutton...
LILLIAN GISH

You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played ...
LILLIAN GISH

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I d...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

If you need drugs to free your mind.Then you haven't really found God. What is temporary peace when ...
LILLIAN L.ELIE

Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to -- to balance the family tick...
LILLIAN CARTER

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have mea...
LILLIAN CARTER

I'm not a homosexual and I don't smoke pot, so what would I say?
LILLIAN CARTER

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like
LILLIAN CARTER

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep...
LILLIAN CARTER

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin...
LILLIAN CARTER

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
LILLIAN CARTER

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
LILLIAN CARTER

A lady is one who never shows her underwear unintentionally
LILLIAN DAY

You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
LILLIAN GISH

A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning
LILLIAN GISH

Never get caught acting.
LILLIAN GISH

The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things...
LILLIAN GISH

The stage was our school, our home, our life.
LILLIAN GISH

What you get is a living - what you give is a life
LILLIAN GISH

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

My father was often angry when I was most like him.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
LILLIAN CARTER

That's the basis of the Constitution. The government is for the people, by the people. And once they...
LILLIAN BERLIN

Life is like a coin, you may spend it any way you wish, but you can only spend it once.
LILLIAN DICKSON

Regarding Men: When they stop lookin', They ain't worth havin'.
LILLIAN CARTER

She was shocked when she followed her aunt and cousin down into the city proper. The streets were cr...
LILLIAN WHITE

Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the loc...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Everyone's weird, I'm just a bit bizarre.
PENNIE LILLIAN

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would ...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

…we must be careful not to do our enemies’ work for them. To argue that to preserve our freedoms...
LILLIAN WHITE

The problem is, that no matter where you work there's going to be people that are so dumb you wonder...
LILLIAN STRANGE

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
LILLIAN HELLMAN

But I speak for both of us a lot of times.
LILLIAN BULLOCK

Now I go to the gym every opportunity I get. (I'm there so often), my dad tells me not to go to the ...
LILLIAN BULLOCK

My whole take is that it's important for Americans to have weapons, and down in Texas, people carry ...
LILLIAN BERLIN

People don't want to face the facts. It's upsetting, but I'm not going to change for it. I'm going t...
LILLIAN BERLIN

That's the basis of the Constitution. The government is for the people, by the people. And once they...
LILLIAN BERLIN

(Co-sponsoring) gives access to different populations and has created a bridge between ideas and cul...
LILLIAN CASILLAS

Maybe we're not in people's radar. Maybe we're not able to reach them.
LILLIAN CASILLAS

Our numbers are not as high as they used to be. There used to be about 30 to 40 students, and now it...
LILLIAN CASILLAS

I'd like to see this completely changed. But I don't think it is going to happen.
LILLIAN HALAT

This is a good program, simply because a lot of people don't have medication coverage, and this cert...
LILLIAN HALAT

He had a wonderful, wry sense of humor and was very independent and very devoted to his wife and his...
LILLIAN HANSEN

He's such a kind, nice gentleman. He always has a kind word to say about everyone.
LILLIAN HANSEN

That connects the whole 70 miles of corridor.
LILLIAN HAMES

This is the first time there's been a comprehensive plan and sales tax measure for the voters in the...
LILLIAN HAMES

The report also shows that there's less vehicle hours traveled. People spend less time in cars with ...
LILLIAN HAMES

It was terrible. Sometimes I would think the worst. And then some days I would think the best. I was...
LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH

I just couldn't go any farther.
LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH

I just really didn't care. I was very confused. I just had given up. I had stayed out for so long in...
LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH

I told him he was my angel.
LILLIAN HOLLINGSWORTH

As he went throughout the state, he saw so many of our new TANF programs and he was impressed.
LILLIAN KOLLER

We care deeply about these children and want them to come back so we can help them work out any issu...
LILLIAN KOLLER

The money is so flexible, so broad. But it's a limited amount. While it seems a lot, given all our n...
LILLIAN KOLLER

We're trying to reduce family poverty. We don't want our children living in poverty.
LILLIAN KOLLER

We are in a dilemma. They agreed to leave but they are not moving.
LILLIAN NSUBUGA

I always tell people that it's not very good to put water features in a bedroom -- not even painting...
LILLIAN TOO

The structures around you also emanate energy, ... and if these structures are placed in a harmoniou...
LILLIAN TOO

The most important thing to understand is that feng shui is really about the energy that's surroundi...
LILLIAN TOO

It was a phenomenal year for PCs, with growth rates not seen since 2000.
LILLIAN TAY

The economic confidence in the region and significant promotions on notebook [computers] were the ca...
LILLIAN TAY

We expect both of them to come home at relatively the same time. We hope that will be by Christmas.
LILLIAN STEWART

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present res...
LILLIAN RUSSELL

When you are young, your grandparents try to tell you their history, and you don't care because it d...
LILLIAN TRUJILLO

It is important to know where you came from, what your roots are. You don't have to have ancestors r...
LILLIAN TRUJILLO

She's smart, she's experienced, she has hard-news experience. You have to look at her track record.
LILLIAN WILLIAMS

Some women who married and also had lesbian relationships were genuinely bisexual. Many others marri...
LILLIAN FADERMAN

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in...
LILLIAN HELLMAN

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep...
LILLIAN GORDY CARTER

Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
LILLIAN BRESLOW RUBIN

... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing ...
LILLIAN BRESLOW RUBIN

Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two soci...
LILLIAN EICHLER WATSON

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.
LILLIAN GORDY CARTER

Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday.
LILLIAN GORDY CARTER

Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA

How you gonna say to give you another chance when all you did was fake it in the past! :(:-[
LILLIAN S. VILORIA

You can be the one to hide in the shadows because you are afraid! But you have no need to be ashamed...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA

I open my eyes to see who I can truly be! Now I needa do me! Yea definitely. Its hard to tell the re...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA

My father is Emmit and my grandfather is Emmit, but I wanted something extra so I could separate my ...
EMMITT SMITH

In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up i...
ZADIE SMITH

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH

When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH

I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH

Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH

The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH

A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
ALEXANDER SMITH

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organ...
ZADIE SMITH

Don't confuse honours with achievement.
ZADIE SMITH

If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did,...
ZADIE SMITH

Your mid-thirties is a good time because you know a fair amount, you have some self-control.
ZADIE SMITH

I love to dance, and sing - in the shower, not in public. I'm too old to go raving, but my fonde...
ZADIE SMITH

There is a kind of desperate need for somebody to tell everyone what to do, which I find really pecu...
ZADIE SMITH

When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everythin...
ZADIE SMITH

If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautio...
ZADIE SMITH

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simpl...
ZADIE SMITH

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups m...
ZADIE SMITH

Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found ...
ZADIE SMITH

I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of bein...
ZADIE SMITH

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong s...
ZADIE SMITH

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equa...
ZADIE SMITH

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH

It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ...
ZADIE SMITH

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.
ZADIE SMITH

Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.
YEARDLEY SMITH

A man who envies our family is a man who needs help.
YEARDLEY SMITH

Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
YEARDLEY SMITH

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sport...
YEARDLEY SMITH

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
YEARDLEY SMITH

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband...
TASHA SMITH

I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist help...
TASHA SMITH

I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who w...
TASHA SMITH

We in this entertainment industry try to act like we're so super powerful. we're not being h...
TASHA SMITH

Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't wan...
TASHA SMITH

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