Samuel Johnson Quotes

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

Samuel Johnson

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• There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Money
  • Business
  • Fire

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Romantic
  • Comedies
  • Basically

• We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Health

• Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Marriage
  • Talent
  • Genius

• Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • People
  • Business
  • Control

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Grandfather
  • Grandson

• Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

  

  Hafez
  • Light
  • Wine
  • Glass

• May we remain connected in love. We are one.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Power
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.

  

  Dana Boente
  • People
  • Country
  • Laws

• Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Name
  • Only
  • Mediocrity

• The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Evil
  • Wave
  • Alike

• No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead. I mean this as a principle of æsthetic, not merely historical, criticism.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Alone
  • Value

• Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Future

• They say I'm a conservative, but I consider myself I true liberal.

  

  Walt Disney
  • True

• Judge them by their works. What have they done for mankind beyond the spinning of airy fancies and the mistaking of their own shadows for gods?

  

  Jack London
  • Done
  • Judge

• The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

  

  James Whitcomb Riley
  • Energy
  • Determination
  • Persistence

• Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast. The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. [...] Ralph shouted. Hear him! He's got the conch! What I mean is . . . maybe it's only us. Nuts! That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum.

  

  William Golding
  • Believe
  • Mean
  • Beast

• The anarch sticks to facts, not ideas. He suffers not for facts but because of them, and usually through his own fault, as in a traffic accident. Certainly, there are unforeseeable things – maltreatments. However, I believe I have attained a certain degree of self-distancing that allows me to regard this as an accident.

  

  Ernst Junger
  • I Believe
  • Fault
  • Regard

• I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like.

  

  John Huston
  • People

• I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Life
  • Jesus
  • Bible

• No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

  

  Samuel Johnson