Samuel Butler Quotes

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

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• I like films to be complete in their written form.

  

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

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• We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.

  

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• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

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• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

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• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

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• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

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• If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

  

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• I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.

  

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• Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.

  

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• Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

  

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• I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.

  

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• What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.

  

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• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

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• Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.

  

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• Every year, I say the Seahawks are going to win the Super Bowl. There's no doubt in my mind every single year. And you have to keep in mind this was well before the Seahawks were good. This was, like, 2-14, drafting-Rick-Mirer Seahawks. I would still be saying they were going to win the Super Bowl.

  

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  

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• 'Humanity has evolved-as far as it has evolved,' continued the old priest, 'with no thanks to its predecessors or itself. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.''Empathy,' Aenea said softly.

  

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• I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

  

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• I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

  

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• Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • World
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