Chandy Samuel Quotes

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments ... ~ Samuel Johnson

Unfathomable mind: now beacon, now sea. ~ Samuel Beckett

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished. ~ Samuel Smiles

What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to its crisis, and happy days may ensue. ~ Samuel Richardson

The more freely a librarian mingles with readers, and the greater the amount of assistance he renders them, the more intense does the conviction of citizens become, that the library is a useful institution, and the more willing do they grow to grant money in larger and larger sums to be used in buying books and employing additional assistants. ~ Samuel Green

In an era when too many Americans are losing their jobs or working for less, trying to make ends meet, in close cases Judge [Samuel] Alito has ruled the vast majority of the time against the claims of the individual citizens. He has acted instead in favor of government, large corporations and other powerful interests. ~ Edward Kennedy

Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything. ~ Samuel Smiles

In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American? ~ Maurice Samuel

If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them. ~ Samuel Hopkins

I looked out the window at walls of moonlit cloud rising beside us as though we we were at the bottom of some, gray and ivory canyon, hung above the moon-smashed sea ...
But, with whatever hindsight, I suppose the reason that I want to close on a consideration of these words is that the moon-solid progress through high, drifting cumulus is - read them again - at the very opposite of what we perceive on a liquid's tilting and untilting top, and so becomes the other privileged pole among the images of this study, this essay, this memoir.
Or perhaps, as it is only a clause whose syntactic place has been questioned by my own unscholarly researches, I merely want to fix it before it vanishes like water, like light, like the play between them we only suggest, but never master, with the word motion. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides, in most things that relate solely to this life; and, therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission, and habitual confidence. Every act of compliance with their motions facilitates a second compliance, every new step towards depravity is made with less reluctance than the former, and thus the descent to life merely sensual is perpetually accelerated. ~ Samuel Johnson

Heal yourself with a book! ~ Samuel Colbran

I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary. ~ Samuel Barnett

In sovereignty there are no gradations. ~ Samuel Johnson

Childhood is like a mirror, which reflects in afterlife the images first presented to it. The first thing continues forever with the child. The first joy, the first sorrow, the first success, the first failure, the first achievement, the first misadventure, paint the foreground of his life. ~ Samuel Smiles

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination. ~ Samuel Butler

Personally I always preferred Lipton's. ~ Samuel Beckett

This was indeed a merciful coincidence, was it not, that at the moment of Watt's losing sight of the ground floor, he lost interest in it also. ~ Samuel Beckett

Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known. ~ Samuel Johnson

Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. ~ Samuel Johnson

The fountain of contentment must spring up in the mind. ~ Samuel Johnson

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. ~ Samuel Butler

What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and perished years ago. So the object of many a tender thought may be spiritually present, in defiance of space - and fond recollections cherished in defiance of time. ~ Samuel Lover

It's absolutely impossible, but it has possibilities. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever. ~ Samuel Beckett

In times of distress strengthen your heart. ~ Samuel Ibn Naghrillah

The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor. ~ Samuel Johnson

I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The only realism in art is of the imagination. ~ William Carlos Williams

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity. ~ Samuel Johnson

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy, the only decent thing to do is die at once. ~ Samuel Butler

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not. ~ Samuel R. Delany

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. ~ Samuel Johnson

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments. ~ Samuel Alito

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret. ~ Samuel Johnson

Guy cradled his tux, stroking it, running his fingers incestuously over the satin stripe on the trousers. There is a satisfaction that only superb clothing can offer, the joy of man raising himself from the mud, vindicating evolution. Life cannot lack purpose if a tuxedo exists - this is the obvious reply to the Samuel Beckett canon. ~ Paul Rudnick

In an era where the White House is abusing power, is excusing and authorizing torture and is spying on American citizens, I find Judge [Samuel] Alito's support for an all-powerful executive branch to be genuinely troubling. ~ Samuel Alito

Orsini did not wait for compliments. Reserve is best countered by reserve. ~ Samuel Shellabarger

I was mightily troubled with a looseness, and feeling for a chamber-pott, there was none, I having called the maid up out of her bed, she had forgot I suppose to put one there; so I was forced in this strange house to rise and shit in the chimney twice. ~ Samuel Pepys

It is more reasonable to wish for reputation while it may be enjoyed, as Anacreon calls upon his companions to give him for present use the wine and garlands which they propose to bestow upon his tomb. ~ Samuel Johnson

Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves. ~ Samuel Johnson

There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence. ~ Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; The night cometh. ~ David Brooks

I'd think there are degrees of greatness," Adam said.
"I don't think so," said Samuel. "That would be like saying there is a little bigness. No. I believe when you come to that responsibility - that hugeness - you are alone to make your choice. On one side you have warmth and companionship and sweet understanding, and on the other cold, lonely greatness. There you make your choice. I'm glad I chose mediocrity, but how am I to say what reward might have come with the other? ~ John Steinbeck

I've been doing American auditions for a while, and it always felt sort of like sending these audition tapes off into the ether. So just hearing anything back from anyone was kind of startling. ~ Xavier Samuel