Smiling Quotations

While starving refugees in Homs were providing target practice for government snipers, Bashar al-Assad's strongest international backer was in Sochi, at the Iceberg Skating Palace, visibly moved, smiling with deep satisfaction, as the Russians beautifully glided and leaped their way to the gold medal in the team event.

Sometimes I think I should have chosen a line of work where it was just me alone in the room, with the sun coming in, and God, insofar as he or she exists, smiling down upon me. Then I would have never been accused of being a tyrant, other than towards myself.

We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.

I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.

'Green Garden' is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.

A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full length. Here ladies sit in pairs and groups, never singly, to cheapen fans and mantillas, while the smiling salesmen, cigarette in hand, shrug and gesticulate and give back banter for banter as gayly as if it were all a holiday frolic.

If a girl is smiling and is bringing positive energy and she's happy, that's what I notice right away - and her teeth.

Happiness, as a word, has become sort of equated with these smiling images on television, selling some nice cream or food product or something. It's seen a bit as being a stupid consumer.

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really.

Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and wife gazing and smiling at them.

When I've ridden in parades, I always throw to the kids, the elderly and anyone who is smiling and having a great time. I try to make eye contact with the person. If you catch a ton and a kid nearby hasn't caught much, share.

With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.

I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.

My dad never missed a day of work, and he was always smiling when he came home.

Where I came from, just nodding and smiling when someone expressed views was the ultimate insult. If people weren't yelling about politics in our house then they were arguing about music, or movies, or food.

As you seek to know the will of our Heavenly Father in your life and become more spiritual, you will be far more attractive, even irresistible. You can use your smiling loveliness to bless those you love and all you meet, and spread great joy.

Imagine Him smiling down on you right now. Embrace His love. Remember, you are His most prized possession, the apple of His eye!

Prince William's smiling hostility toward the press is his non-negotiable core value. I am told he is so protective of his privacy he has been known to plant false tips with friends he distrusts and watch the media to see if they play out.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

What a fantastic opening night of our PSL campaign we couldn't have asked for a better situation with Peter Nicol winning the decider to close the evening. Nicol David was brilliant too, and has obviously made a big hit with our members by sitting in the crowd to watch all the matches after she'd finished playing. At the end of the evening there was a club full of smiling faces, as well as a very happy manager!

We're going to miss her. Not just her game, but her personality. She was always smiling and joking.

Wayne Newton has brought a lot of smiles and laughter to Las Vegas for the last 40 years. It's great he's being honored for his work entertaining our troops overseas. I'm sure Bob Hope would be smiling knowing his legacy continues.

Love is smiling on the inside and out.

She will remain for me, as for many French, the smiling and emotional Olympic champion with the extraordinary stride,

She's a smiling, happy girl, and she's smiling again now.

She's been smiling all day. It's good to see her smile.

She's always smiling and ready to do anything asked of her. She's only going to get better from here. We let her down in her first game against Canada, but she had the right attitude to bounce right back. To have someone like her who has been on the bubble for so long, it brings a smile to your face.

Ms. Jackson and the staff at Fair worked so hard to reach Level 4, we just knew they would make it even before the test results, ... I don't think she (Jackson) has stopped smiling since I told her they reached Level 4.

Monday night, I was taking down all the stuff from his hospital room, and I was telling him we had to get ready to go home. He was smiling the whole time.

My girls handled it great. They were smiling and laughing and had no complains. It was a good day.

I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I'm the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally - the one who's usually smiling because it's T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.

I didn't really know what to do - I mean, I'm not a social worker, ... I saw the squalor, but they were smiling and their eyes were still bright.

I have a smile on my face that's 10 feet wide. It represents the smiling faces of the 1.1 million school children smiling they're so happy with this decision.

I can't help smiling away and putting that showbiz face on. But behind the smile, I'll be absolutely terrified.

I don't think you are worrying about smiling or being nice to your opponent. It's just like you have a job that needs to get done, and after those 40 minutes, I can smile and be OK with my play and with my team's play.

He was always smiling and much more concerned about other people's problems. He had a very engaging personality and a wonderful way of ministering to people and supporting people. He could relate to all walks of life, all religious backgrounds.

He was a lot of fun. He woke up in the morning smiling and he went to bed smiling, and in between, he took care of business. ... He was special.

He talks to every person on campus. He meets everybody with a smile. You'll see him smiling at everybody. Everybody knows his name.

He says you play best when you're smiling - and that's true. He's just passing on his Olympic wisdom. He's always got good advice for me. He's very experienced at this type of thing and I always listen to everything he has to say.

He says you play best when you're smiling ? and that's true.

He goes up and gets everything. I was kind of looking behind me and I saw him smiling at me.

What do people gain from lying? besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and those who love you. i guess those few minutes of satisfaction, smiling behind your lies, are soon well worth a lifetime of a regretful guilty conscience.

Her smiling and knowing that no matter what tomorrow holds, we have created a wonderful memory for her to hold on to for the rest of her life.

Going down the tunnel we were smiling because we knew we could play better.

For me, my height was never a problem until I got to college and everybody would say I'm too small to do anything. I do have to thank Coach Gunter, who I knew is smiling down on me, as well as Pokey Chatman for giving me this opportunity and giving a chance on a small guard.

He was smiling even then. He had a feeling and I could understand where he was coming from. But since he's been here, he's been an outstanding individual, easy to work with, easy to talk to.

He was a wonderful boy, always smiling and had a quick wit. He was a very popular lad and the whole Clifton community is absolutely devastated by this loss. Everyone is totally shocked.

He didn't have a malicious bone in his body. I never knew anybody that harbored any ill feelings toward him. He was always smiling or sleeping.

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

I talked to several people smiling when they came out of rate negotiations.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I think we've come a tremendous distance here. We had been beaten about the heads and shoulders so badly for so long there that people were pretty quiet about the office. People are talking again. They're having more fun, and they're smiling more.

It is kind of ironic that the rule was named after me, and I'm still here. It's kind of like God is smiling at that one.

I watched him. He was on the edge of his seat. He was smiling and his eyes were really wide. I just got goose bumps. I kept the tickets because that's one of my favorite 'Star Wars' memories.

James met me at the door, and I think he pulled my bags right in out of the car, ... The thing I remember is he was smiling like crazy.

I saw him from a distance out there and he was smiling and strutting.

I said, if it's going to be done, you're the ones who will have to do it. That's the way it should be. It's taken off from that point. We're having fun now. Even in a close ball game, you can see them smiling and having fun out there. And that's what you want at this stage.

Irish eyes are surely smiling - and we all will be breathing easier - with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. This is about as thorough a rebuke a court can give.

Irish eyes are surely smiling -- and we all will be breathing easier -- with this green court ruling on St. Patrick's Day. The court recognized the blarney in the administration's plan to gut a key part of the Clean Air Act and rejected it. Now thousands of dirty facilities will not be able to pollute more.

Please, ... don't indicate that I brought this up at all. ... Besides smiling about it, I haven't taken it further.

Some people are like Slinkies ... not really good for anything, but you can't help smiling when you see one tumble down the stairs.

My smile has been my ticket to the world. Smiling releases the same feel-good hormones you get jogging. Caring for your lips and gums is important. I brush my teeth morning and night, alternating toothpaste brands. In addition to flossing, I use a Water Pik to massage my gums and remove food particles.

Look at this. The baseball gods are still smiling on us.

Living in a city where I do - somebody shoves you all the time, so I'm kind of used to it. After a while, I'm smiling and it's like wow, I'm back at home again.

I was thrilled with the nomination, but I didn't want to go to the ceremony. I hated the idea of sitting there smiling and not winning.

I think people are interested in anyone who's involved in a hit, ... Not so much because you're a good writer, but maybe because you're lucky, too. Maybe the gods are smiling on this guy.

That was probably what got my back up more than anything, was to have their coach standing on the balcony smiling at me once I was dismissed.

I was overly excited. I did not know how to act, and I could not stop smiling until I got to Arkansas.

I was not surprised when he told me. And he was smiling when he got that position.

I would hope that Frank Herbert is smiling down on this and enjoying what I've done.

You kind of have to make him look scary. ... If you just had a nice guy smiling with a bomb on him, it wouldn't have the same effect.

You just can't put it into words. I know I haven't stopped smiling yet. This whole game was great for the program. Every time you put that sweater on you're representing all the great players that have played here, all the championships that have been won. It is a special place at Wisconsin and the following we have is second to none.

We were more ready to play than I even thought we were going in. Even during the infield/outfield drills before the game, I don't think we've been that sharp in over two years. That's the kind of things a coach looks for early on. The guys couldn't understand why I was smiling so much before the game started.

We played the eighth and ninth holes. The kid was smiling the whole way around. It was one of the biggest honors of my life.

We had fun. That's what we were trying to get back to this week. Getting that desire, enjoying football again, making hits, making plays, getting each other pumped up. When you do that as a team, you see everyone is smiling out there.

We wanted to make an album that sounds like our band, and not a heady, self-conscious studio project. Everyone tells us rock and roll is a shadow of itself--a sad old milk cow smiling at the farmer every morning. We still see a bucking bull smashing around the stable.

Unless you were in that dressing room and around the whole thing, you can't describe it. I don't think I've stopped smiling yet since the game has ended.

Two years ago the A's brought in their first-round picks to the Coliseum and he was smiling and telling everybody, 'Yes, sir.' I told him, 'Don't call me sir.' I'm not much older than him. You can tell his parents brought him up well.

We own overtime. We're 5-0 now this season in overtime. We were all smiling when it got to overtime because we knew we had it. We find a whole new gear there.

Brittany was a vibrant and charming young woman with a great outlook on life. She should have lived to be a mother; a grandmother and she had so much vitality to give to others. She was always smiling and bubbly and full of life.

Even if the president wasn't up to it in alligators and his approval rating was 90 percent, John Roberts simply is the best guy for the chief justice's job. I think the thought of having John Roberts join him on the court kept the chief going despite his cancer. I think he's probably smiling about it now.

And there were a couple of guys that were smiling over there a little bit. But we're this far and we're enjoying our time right now. It's an unbelievable feeling being in the gold-medal game. I don't think there's been a single person outside our locker room who believed we could go this far.

There's no doubt about it. We knew that coming into the year. This is the most talented football team I've been around. I know what a championship team looks like. I told the guys early in the season we can be that type of team. We don't have to play people close. If we play like we're capable, we'll be smiling at the end of every game.

is someone who can own the screen for a few minutes, someone who brings this extraordinary authority, his own smiling madness. See if Donald Sutherland is free!

The thing I always liked the best was that he was always smiling and having a good time while everyone else was uptight.

Th' applause of listening senates to command, / The threats of pain and ruin to despise,/ To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, / And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Sometimes I think children are the worst people alive. And even if they're not - even if some smiling toddler is as pure as Evian - it's only a matter of time ... As far as I can tell, the nicest thing you can say about children is that they haven't done anything terrible yet.

Seeing these smiling faces is the greatest pleasure. They have been magnificent all season. They have been our 12th man. I have always said our fans are the best in England. Now I know they are the best in Europe too.

Seeing my mom and dad and aunt every weekend really helps because we all talk about it and deal with it in our own way. Just basically help her celebrate what's left of her life and make sure she's happy and always smiling through.

Seeing how the kids react, smiling and all, that makes it all worth it. I let the kids shoot me sometimes and they'll be talking about that for years.

Save More, Smile More. With that ad, it moves from Wal-Mart smiling at you to the customer smiling.

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Somebody was smiling at us tonight. The stars were definitely aligned for us in this game.

Anyone can find Vanessa around Andalusia planting trees, shrubs and flowers. She is always picking up limbs or mowing grass. No matter what the job is, Vanessa is always smiling and waving to everyone as they pass by her.

As a consumer you're going to pay more, but as an energy investor, you're going to be smiling as you put $3 gasoline in your tank.

All-American' looks very different today than it did twenty years ago, and I felt that that wasn't being reflected. For better or for worse, young girls get their idea of what is beautiful from the pages of magazines. And so when an Indian girl looks in Seventeen and sees a girl from her background smiling back at her, that sends her a message that she is beautiful.

A hundred standing people smiling and talking to one another, nodding like gooney birds.

Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity; and your prohibiting the forbidden is charity; and your showing men the road, in the land in which they lose it, is charity; and your assisting the b

The way that Roger runs his organization, it's a 'flat' organization. What I mean by that is that you can just walk into anybody's office and ask them a question on how we can get things done a little bit better or easier and nobody has a chip on their shoulder on how the totem pole is supposed to work. Everything is run flat across the board. Everybody is smiling and having a good time.

All you see are smiling faces. It seems like people come out in a positive mood.