Lisa Newton-Smart

“Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.”
― Abigail Adams, The Quotable Abigail Adams

“Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.”
― Andy Rooney

“Just that, two people, witnessing or experiencing the same event, can have two entirely different interpretations of the truth. To one person, the knot was a heart, and removing it devastated the stone such that it succumbed to the artist’s vision. To another, the knot was an obstruction to the stone, preventing it from being what or who it was meant to be.”
― Penny Reid, Beard Necessities

“So few people were left who knew what combat was like. People were so easy to frighten. Combat taught a man what to fear – and what to ignore.”
― Tom Clancy, The Cardinal of the Kremlin