Samuel Johnson Quotes
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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One never can know the whys and the wherefores of one's passional changes.
D. H. Lawrence -
I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
Sam Hunt -
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
Orison Swett Marden -
I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist.
Rachael Taylor -
I'll never be like a Barbie girl, that's for sure.
Victoria Azarenka -
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
Eddie Marsan -
You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
B. B. King -
It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
Barry Gibb Bee Gees -
I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get older, you get better, and the parts you get improve, too. But that's only true for a man, not a woman.
Ian McShane -
I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
Olivier Martinez -
The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
Fabrizio Moreira
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I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again.
Nathan Parsons -
Your man Flavor Flav is living!
Flavor Flav -
It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.
Vernon Howard -
I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
T. J. Miller -
I never read about photography.
Sally Mann -
Never trust a hippie. That's definitely my motto.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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Israel never targets civilians deliberately, period.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.
Cara Buono -
You can look at everything from pre-Heisman to post-Heisman, and I think that's why it ranks up at the top, because before then, I didn't even think I was good enough to be a professional ballplayer.
Barry Sanders -
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance.
Dalai Lama -
I think, as most people are, I'm fascinated with love, relationships, and my daily life so I'm very inclined to make films about those things.
Mark Webber Pulp -
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
Samuel Johnson