Samuel Ullman Quotes

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Samuel Ullman

• Enthusiasm
• Ideals
• Grows Old

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• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • God
  • House
  • Me

• I've had this theory for a while, but I think there needs to be a message with the end of 'Game of Thrones.' You know? I think what needs to happen is ice and fire are going to go to war, a huge war between those two factions, and I think, in that war, they will destroy themselves. There will be complete chaos, complete destruction.

  

  Finn Jones
  • War
  • Game
  • Fire

• Harvard was the most intimidating experience. I felt so out of my league there.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Experience
  • Out
  • Harvard

• I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Way
  • Kind

• My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • Trying
  • History
  • Focus

• We've all got royal blood in our veins, you know. It's the best place for it in my view. We've all got a little bit of royal blood in our veins, we're all in line for the succession, and if nineteen million, four hundred thousand, two hundred and eight people die, I'll be king tomorrow. It's not very likely but its a nice thought and helps keep you going.

  

  Peter Cook
  • People
  • Die
  • Nice

• You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Motivational

• When something possesses me, I go ahead and do it.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Something
  • Possesses

• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political

• When you did impressions on 'MADtv,' the producers gave you a Walkman that played huge sections of whatever movie was being parodied, with your character's catchphrases recorded on a loop. You'd wear this thing around during rehearsals and for a week listen to the voice you had to impersonate over and over again. It drove all of us crazy.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Crazy

• French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Language
  • Bureaucracy
  • Diplomacy

• The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Dangerous
  • Criminal
  • Morals

• The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • God
  • Teaches
  • Christian Religion

• Yet hold it more humane, more heav'nly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear.

  

  John Milton
  • Hearts
  • Willing
  • Conquer

• Next to a sincere compliment, I think I like a well-deserved and honest rebuke.

  

  William Feather
  • Thinking
  • Honest
  • Compliment

• I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Situation
  • Foolishness
  • Awkwardness

• I think a lot of things are written from experience, but then you become a writer and talk about other people's experience and you tell stories. I mean, you can't just tell your own story all the time.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Experience
  • Mean
  • Stories

• I didn't have to audition. That's common, but it had never happened to me before. Normally, I hate auditioning. I need to stew and think... let the character develop and grow inside me.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Hate

• How can I convert the enthusiasm of voters into a practical programme of action that meets their desire for economic security and greater prosperity?

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Action
  • Desire
  • Security

• The earth neither grows old or wears out if it is dunged.

  

  Columella
  • Earth
  • Wears
  • Grows Old

• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  

  Samuel Ullman
  • Enthusiasm
  • Ideals
  • Grows Old