Samuel Johnson Quotes

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Samuel Johnson

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• We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Building
  • Determination
  • Confused

• Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Time
  • Character
  • Movie

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Healthy
  • Eating
  • Meat

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• There is no bore like a clever bore.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Clever
  • Bore

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• Celine Dion is my major inspiration.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Inspiration
  • Major
  • Celine Dion

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Time
  • Music
  • Know

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Home
  • Health
  • Best

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Movies
  • Down
  • Million

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• I was miserable in WCW. I knew I wasn't going to go any higher there, and jumping to WWE hadn't even crossed my mind. I couldn't stop wondering, 'Is this it? Is this what I worked my whole life for?'

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Stop

• I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Bike
  • Ride
  • Motorcycle

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• I went to public school, and I didn't do well in school. And it wasn't until, actually, I got into school at Juilliard - it was the first time in my life that I thought, 'Oh, maybe I'm not stupid,' because I was so inspired and passionate about what I was learning, and it was the first time in my life I had felt that.

  

  Jessica Chastain
  • Life
  • Time
  • School

• I grew up poor and used to look at people in big houses and thought they had everything. Then later on I looked at models in magazines and thought they had it all.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • People
  • Up

• I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Waiting

• Never, ever lose sight of the power of one individual American. They can have an unbelievable magnifying affect just by the very fact they make up their mind to do so!

  

  H. L. Richardson
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Power

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A