Samuel Johnson Quotes

The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.

Samuel Johnson

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• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Own
  • Which

• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Love
  • Know
  • Tolerance

• Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Family
  • Black
  • Fans

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Future
  • Moral

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • Art
  • Words

• I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Good
  • Think
  • Just Because

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!

  

  Laura Linney
  • Love
  • Father
  • Think

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Family
  • Mental Illness

• You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.

  

  Carl Honore
  • May
  • Career
  • Best

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• I don't like writing with real people in mind.

  

  Laura Wade
  • People
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• I like to race, not to do laps alone.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Race

• One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.

  

  Ursus Wehrli
  • Up
  • Way
  • Thoughts

• You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Vision

• Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Men
  • Truth

• The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.

  

  David Friedrich Strauss
  • May
  • Reality
  • Supernatural

• The greater, far the greater number of those who rave and rail, and inquire and accuse, neither suspect nor fear, nor care for the publick; but hope to force their way to riches, by virulence and invective, and are vehement and clamorous, only that they may be sooner hired to be silent.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Hope
  • Fear