Samuel Alexander Quotes
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
Quotes to Explore
-
It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
-
Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
Life is a school of probability.
-
It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
-
There is no doubt that the majority of Kansas Citians are happy with their three-terminal airport. I will advocate in Washington for our city to keep its unique airport as long as we want it.
-
I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
-
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
-
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
-
The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
-
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
-
I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
-
A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
-
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
-
I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
-
If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
-
In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
-
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
-
I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly be if you get out of a relationship, and you don't recognize yourself because you changed a lot about you.
-
Be a bobbed cork: When you are pushed down, bob up.
-
In social cognitive theory, perceived self-efficacy results from diverse sources of information conveyed vicariously and through social evaluation, as well as through direct experience.
-
Gravity is not an option in string theory. It is a logical consequence of it!
-
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
