Samuel Butler Quotes

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Samuel Butler

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• The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Life
  • Korea
  • North Korea

• Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conscience

• I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Man
  • Fans
  • Sexy

• If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.

  

  Ed Koch
  • You
  • Violence
  • Jail

• I believe how you measure a good movie is how many times you can see it. With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast. I'm always the 'less is more' guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Real

• The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Force
  • Labor
  • Participation

• In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Smart
  • Profound

• A cat is never vulgar.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Never
  • Cat
  • Vulgar

• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Famous
  • Saying
  • Radio

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Life
  • Great
  • Husband

• The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Chinese

• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Men
  • Women
  • Justice

• I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Want
  • Change
  • Same

• I have to live up to the love I am receiving.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Receiving

• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Different
  • Text
  • Define

• The big things in the average person's life are the romances that they have - and then the destruction and loss of them. Parents, siblings, children, the death of parents, family tension... these are monumental things. They struck me as being interesting to write about. I didn't have a very exotic life, but all this stuff happened to me.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Men
  • Hope
  • Endure

• If you have cancer, the most important single consideration is to get the maximum amount of vitamin B17 into your body in the shortest period of time. This is secondary to the medical skill involved in administering it, which is relatively minimal.

  

  Ernst T. Krebs
  • Cancer
  • Medical
  • Skill

• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Fan
  • Excited
  • Actress

• Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Want
  • Clothes
  • Minds