Elizabeth Joan Smith quotes

“It's just so hard sometimes to work out where people stand on these things. I mean, isn't the Pope a feminist?”
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

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“When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.”
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

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“No woman has an abortion for fun.”
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

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“There is a gulf between the high value Americans put on life in theory and its cheapness in practice.”
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

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“We are making gods out of global celebrities.”
-- Elizabeth Joan Smith

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

“I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.”

“The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this, namely, that Parliament thus defined has, under the English constitution, the right to make or unmake any law whatever; and, further, that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament.”

Source : "Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution" by A. V. Dicey, LibertyClassics, (pp. 3-4), 1982.

“Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.”

“The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.”

“Thankfully, I'm lucky enough to be able to eat ice cream. I've got to have my cookies and cream! But I work out a lot, so I burn a lot of calories.”

“I love going to work out now. It gets out aggression and my trainer really shakes it up so I don't get bored.”

“I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.”

“Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”

Source : Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

“Getting enough sleep can be just as important as working out.”

Source : Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.67, Rodale