Samuel Butler Quotes

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Samuel Butler

• Family
• Money
• Bad
• Health
• Christian

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• I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Now

• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Fear
  • Proud
  • Religious

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Job
  • Age
  • Door

• Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Great
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

  Sachin Bansal
  • People
  • Small
  • Wonder

• Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • Friends
  • Light
  • Best

• As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.

  

  Carl Van Vechten
  • Power
  • Inspiration
  • Beauty

• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • United States
  • Facilities

• I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Life
  • Party
  • Building

• I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Country
  • Giving
  • Start

• There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Work
  • May
  • Think

• I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Writer
  • Textbooks
  • Scientology

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour.

  

  Taliesin
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Country
  • Proud

• Heal the world! Stop the hate. Lend a helping hand to those in need.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • World
  • Heal

• America has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, the best medical technology, the best medical breakthrough medicines in the world. There is absolutely no reason we should not have in this country the best health care in the world.

  

  Bill Frist
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• At most schools, if you switch majors, you basically start over. That means more semesters... and more money. The former might be appealing, but the latter is a major problem for a demographic already saddled with student debt.

  

  Brian Shactman
  • Money

• The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Family
  • Money
  • Bad