#ole

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. ↗

— Adam Smith

#benevolent #constitute #exercise #feel #human

This whole force is utterly demoralized by victory. There seems to be neither head nor tail. ↗

— Charles Ferguson Smith

#force #head #neither #nor #seems

It's true I don't tolerate fools but then they don't tolerate me, so I am spiky. Maybe that's why I'm quite good at playing spiky elderly ladies. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#elderly #fools #good #i #i am

My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing. ↗

— Maggie Smith

#chequered #got #humour #i #i think

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#controversy #i #i think #important #issues

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#coal #concept #culture #dangerous #develops

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book. ↗

— Michael W. Smith

#been #book #forgotten #gospels #had

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible. ↗

— Robert Smith

#business #enjoyment #horrible #i #idea

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#choose #his #inexorably #lying #method

The hardest part of this whole ordeal is not knowing if your children are getting what they need to survive. ↗

— Susan Smith

#getting #hardest #knowing #need #not knowing