Samuel Witwer (Samuel Stewart Witwer) Quotes

When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

Samuel Witwer

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• Liars
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• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • America
  • Always
  • Poetry

• If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Book
  • Career
  • Path

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Son

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Internet
  • California
  • Rights

• There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Work
  • You
  • Kind

• When I begin to write a story, I usually know how things will end. It's the journey toward that point I must discover. The process is sometimes painful, but also exciting.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Journey

• I've been lucky enough to travel widely. When you're based in Europe, it's very easy to go to Madrid or Budapest for the weekend. I also lived in Italy for ten years and now live in Ireland.

  

  Laurie Graham
  • Live
  • Travel
  • Weekend

• I've come to realize that artists and scientists are alike. They go through the same processes using different tools. They are both driven to answer the question, 'What if?'

  

  Ellen Klages
  • Different
  • Question

• It's a misconception that you don't have seasons in southern California. They are just very subtle. The vegetation is very different. Plants react differently. You just have to be a little more observant.

  

  Christoph Waltz
  • Different
  • California

• Normally when one reporter talks to you at a tournament it's no big deal.

  

  Bubba Watson

• I make bangers all the time, and I knew it was going to come. My mom probably used to think it wasn't going to happen. My daughter's mom thought it wasn't going to happen, and a couple of girlfriends. You just gotta keep on doing it. I'm living proof.

  

  Ty Dolla Sign
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Couple

• Too many investors overvalue companies in the near term while undervaluing them in the long term.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Long

• As a member and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee during the 2000s, I met with civilian and military officials in Kurdistan, Libya, Jordan, Israel, Egypt, and Yemen. They shared many of the same international defense priorities as the United States. We acknowledged our differences, but we worked from where we found common ground.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • House
  • Military

• My feeling on therapy is it's a luxury, and if you're fortunate enough to get some smart people to talk to about life, then that's fortunate and you should go for it.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Explanation
  • Obscure
  • Ask For

• I have Googled myself, yeah, I think everybody has. I try not to make a habit of it - in fact I made a rule once never to Google myself, which made me happy.

  

  Aidan Gillen
  • Happy
  • Habit

• We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Equal
  • Sacrifices
  • Large

• When you're a liar, a person of low moral fortitude, really any explanation you need to be true can be true. Especially if you're smart enough. You can figure out a way to justify anything.

  

  Samuel Witwer
  • Smart
  • Explanation
  • Liars