Samuel Butler Quotes

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

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

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Work
  • Help
  • Trouble

• I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Moments

• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Dark
  • Ocean
  • Without

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Live
  • True
  • House

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • Long
  • School
  • I Can

• We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.

  

  P. D. James
  • Good
  • Friends
  • English

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Me
  • Dark
  • Matter

• I've been down to the Ecolodge in Panama, but there really are only a handful of real green hotels in the U.S.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Real
  • Green
  • Down

• So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Think
  • Song

• I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Day

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs, and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  

  George Eliot
  • Life
  • Music
  • Brain

• I hope I don't get a roundhouse kick from Chuck Norris.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Hope
  • Roundhouse
  • Chuck Norris

• Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure I can. But I know it's there.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Up
  • Knows
  • Happened

• People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Universe

• I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mind
  • Hate
  • Lying