Samuel Butler Quotes

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

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• And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.

  

  Laura Innes
  • People
  • Medicine
  • Personal

• The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • People
  • Up
  • Find

• My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Job
  • Best
  • Fight

• As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Work
  • Independent
  • Relationships

• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Write
  • Songwriter

• The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Challenges

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Church

• There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • World
  • Women
  • Feminist

• When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Need
  • Expectations

• I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Done
  • Hero
  • Where

• My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Said

• Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Work
  • House
  • Violence

• The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Couple
  • Close
  • West

• 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

• How can you think and hit at the same time?

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Time
  • Think
  • Same

• When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Just
  • Marketing
  • Very

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• I am a serious businesswoman. I don't enjoy being out there on TV; it's not what I do well. But I love building companies; I love making products.

  

  Jennifer Flavin
  • Serious

• I don't go to record stores to look at my albums, but it's always a thrill to see them.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Look
  • See
  • Go

• I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

  

  Louis Jourdan
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• I can watch anybody all day long if they're really doing what they're doing. I have a fascination with human behavior, watching people talk, when they pick at their face or how they hold their hand or if they're listening to you, if they're not listening to you.

  

  Scoot McNairy
  • People
  • Long
  • Listening

• Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

  

  William Cowper
  • Home
  • Dark
  • Painting

• I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

  

  Samuel Butler
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