Samuel Johnson Quotes

Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

Samuel Johnson

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• If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Understand

• Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Inspire
  • Bold
  • Timidity

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • House
  • Trump
  • Reasonable

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
  • Never
  • Cutting

• I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Leftwing

• I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Work
  • Movie
  • High

• Children, old crones, peasants, and dogs ramble; cats and philosophers stick to their point.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Children
  • Old
  • Cats

• Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Long

• Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Athletes

• I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Stage
  • Public
  • Performances

• In the history of America, we've never had an energy plan. We don't even realize the resources we have available to us.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • America
  • History
  • Energy

• At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Light
  • End
  • Questions

• We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Good
  • City
  • Partner

• You have to think about what you want to do. There is nothing to say that you should study from the age of 20 to 23. I learnt more on a film set at 17 than in the classroom.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Think
  • Age
  • Want

• Once your dream is fulfilled you face another one.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Dream
  • You
  • Face

• Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Support
  • Name
  • Solar

• Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • World
  • Hollywood

• One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Action
  • Play
  • Trump

• The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Revelation
  • Gesture
  • Fraction

• I kind of want to be seen as an American writer, not just a New York writer.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • American

• Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.

  

  Jim Elliot
  • Longing
  • Appetite

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson