Samuel Butler Quotes

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Samuel Butler

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• North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Men
  • Country
  • Man

• It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Done
  • Why
  • Stress

• There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Great
  • Running

• Of course I get hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hurt
  • Get
  • Course

• There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Gay

• Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Wonderful
  • Tough
  • Get

• I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Drink
  • Fair
  • Noodles

• I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Life
  • Think
  • You

• The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Important
  • Me
  • Influence

• Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Good
  • Person
  • Stillness

• Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Trees

• It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • End
  • Kings
  • France

• Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Nature
  • Treat
  • Human Nature

• Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Never

• Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Learn
  • Acting
  • Nation

• I wanted to be an academic when I was 19 or 20. But, I've gone off that idea. The lifestyle is kind of lonely and isolated. I don't think that would suit me.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Lonely

• There are multiple shows of record about a late-transitioning patriarch and how the kids are affected, and there are multiple narratives. That narrative on "Keeping up with the Kardashians," the answer is, they're pretty much fine. It's the same sort of story we were telling which is, you know what? Everybody's okay.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Kids
  • Answers
  • Fine

• I'm sure that there are many situations in life that are going to offer the same risks and pitfalls that you have to get past. That's just life.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Life
  • Risks
  • Pitfalls

• I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Ferrari
  • Mercedes
  • Porsche

• To know everything is to know nothing, but to know nothing is to know everything.

  

  Confucius
  • Know
  • Everything
  • Nothing

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence