Samuel Butler Quotes
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
Rachel Brosnahan
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I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
Oscar Isaac
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
John Clare
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
Ingrid Bergman
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I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.
Lance Gross
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
Friedrich Schiller
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler