Smooth Quotes - Page 9

• So false is faction, and so smooth a liar,
  As that it never had a side entire.

  Samuel Daniel

  Liars, Sides, Factions

  Samuel Daniel, George Sewell (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings..”, p.232

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• It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.

  Jane Porter

  Earth, Trouble, Made

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• What a good thing there is no marriage or giving in marriage in the after-life; it will certainly help to smooth things out.

  Barbara Pym

  Giving, Helping, Good Things

  Barbara Pym (1981). “Jane and Prudence”, Dutton Adult

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• Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

  Owen Feltham

  Hope, Men, Yield

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• Those old ages are like the landscape that shows best in purple distance, all verdant and smooth, and bathed in mellow light.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Distance, Light, Purple

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• I should not like to preach to a congregation who all believed as I believe. I would as lief preach to a basket of eggs in their smooth compactness and oval formality.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Believe, Eggs, Oval

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• The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

  Matthieu Ricard

  Goal, Confusion, Meditation

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.35, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The road less traveled will not be smooth

  Megan McCafferty

  Road Less Traveled, Traveled

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.32, Broadway Books

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• Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

  Nas

  Jamaica, Hip Hop, United States

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• Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

  Norman McLaren

  Giving, Sound, Form

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• Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Circles, Shapes, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The mountains too, at a distance, appear airy masses and smooth, but seen near at hand they are rough.

  Diogenes Laertius

  Distance, Hands, Mountain

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• If you say, 'Oh, there was a little bit of acidity from the lime juice on the left side of my tongue, and then this beautiful, smooth pureed potato with some crunchy shallots on top, and it all came together,' you never will get out of that sentence alive.

  Pete Wells

  Beautiful, Together, Alive

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• The only game [Vladimir] Putin can play is to establish a lifelong dictatorship in the country, at first de facto and finally also de jure. In this case, [Dmitri] Medvedev is an interim figure bound to assist Putin in his plan to guarantee a smooth transition to a new term in office.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Games, Play

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• It isn't given to man to be able to run a financial institution where different interest-rate scenarios will prevail on all of that so as to produce kind of smooth, regular earnings from a very large base to start with.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Men, Able

  Source: hurricanecapital.wordpress.com

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• I think just having smooth skin is so great because when you get your summer tan, you don't have to do anything. It's just soft and smooth.

  Gigi Hadid

  Summer, Thinking, Skins

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.

  Plato

  Eye, Wind, Wings

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• There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Teacher, Emotional, Two

  "Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson on Writing, Mars, Curiosity, and the Higgs Boson". Interview With Sandra Kitt, aalbc.com. January 1, 2013.

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• I'm not going to listen to the hottest Hip Hop station in my city because that's not where I'm at right now. I'm going to listen to the smooth jams of the 90's and early 2000's. That's where I am and that's where my audience is.

  Ginuwine

  Cities, Hip Hop, Jam

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I'm sort of known in the comedy community as "Smooth Sailing," just 'cause everything always goes great. I've always had success at every turn. Everything has gone well for me. I've never had a project fail. Everywhere I go, it's "What's up, Smooth Sailing?! How are the seas today, buddy?" I'm like, "Calm as can be!"

  Jon Glaser

  Community, Sailing, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.

  Steve Hackett

  Technology, Thinking, Track

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• I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smooth Sailing, Careers, Found

  "Not My Job: Mindy Kaling Gets Quizzed On Do-It-Yourself Projects". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 20, 2015.

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• Though President Obama was at his smooth and polished best the other night, two aspects of his worldview came into sharper relief - his reflexive hostility toward and misunderstanding of business and his reliable resort to left-wing fables about race relations.

  Mona Charen

  Night, Race, Wings

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• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Brother, Knowledge, Men

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• I like men who have known the best and the worst, whose life has been anything but a smooth trip. Storms have battered them, they have lain, sometimes for months on end, becalmed. There is a residue even if they fail. It has not been all tinkling; there have been grand chords.

  James Salter

  Men, Storm, Months

  "Ali? Laver? Best? No, the Williams sisters" by Will Buckley, www.theguardian.com. September 15, 2007.

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