Samuel Johnson Quotes

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Johnson

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• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Yourself
  • Find
  • Actor

• When you cease to dream you cease to live.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • England
  • Only
  • Spoke

• That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Walking

• A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Time
  • Poetry
  • Place

• Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Dream
  • Imagination

• No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • May
  • Reality
  • Fall

• I'm very involved in the writing on every level.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Very
  • Involved

• Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Late

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Writing
  • School
  • Age

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Me
  • Know

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• Satire doesn't effect change.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Change
  • Effect
  • Satire

• My last two years of high school, I think I went to Burger King every day for lunch.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Beginning

• Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.

  

  Donella Meadows
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Listening

• Women today are wanting to work in the workforce but also come home and learn to bake cupcakes, to do calligraphy, to knit a blanket for their baby, to 3-D print something.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Home

• A lot of people said, Who do you think you are? I told them I know exactly who I am and I'll tell you exactly where I'm going.

  

  Michael Caine
  • People
  • Said

• Leaders are made, not born. You learn to become a leader by doing what other excellent leaders have done before you. You become proficient in your job or skill, and then you become proficient at understanding the motivations and behaviors of other people.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Done
  • Business

• Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Understanding