Samuel Johnson Quotes

I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.

Samuel Johnson

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• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Power
  • Hurt
  • Lies

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Present

• To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Courage
  • Lies

• A mistake that a lot of us have made, related to those who advocate for gun safety legislation, is that we try to process it through our legislative bodies, and that's where the NRA's strength lies.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Mistake
  • Lies
  • Process

• What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lies
  • inspirational
  • Comparison

• They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

  

  Kanye West
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Sex

• History is a set of lies agreed upon.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • History
  • Lies
  • Agreed

• The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Lies

• The early Church had nothing but the Old Testament. The New Testament lies hidden in the Old; the Old Testament lies open in the New.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Church
  • Lies
  • Old

• Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Victory

• Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?

  

  Upamanyu Chatterjee
  • Why
  • Government
  • Lies

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  

  Jack Miller
  • Lies
  • Human
  • Religions

• People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Truth
  • Lies

• Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • History
  • True

• Fantasy, if it's really convincing, can't become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time. In this new dimension, whatever it is, nothing corrodes or gets run down at the heel or gets to look ridiculous like, say, the celluloid collar or the bustle.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Time
  • Simple
  • Lies

• Lies don't fix things. They don't even make things easier, at least not in the long run. Best to tell the truth and then clean up an honest mess.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Long
  • Truth

• When I was growing up, I'd study for days trying to get good grades. When I'd get an 'A,' I'd feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
  • Like

• I know not whether more is to be dreaded from streets filled with soldiers accustomed to plunder, or from garrets filled with scribblers accustomed to lies.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Lies