Sam Lloyd Quotes

What I can't figure out is why you gotta make yourself crackers trying to be somebody you can't ever be instead of just letting yourself be the one and only Evie O'Neill. ~ Libba Bray

Evie yanked him to safety by the edge of his shirt, ripping it. "Thanks. You owe me a shirt," Sam said. "You owe me twenty dollars. ~ Libba Bray

With a satisfied groan, Sam leaned back against his chair, his hands on his protruding gut. "Ling. How would your mother feel about a Jewish son-in-law? ~ Libba Bray

If I have to look through one more of these, I'm throwing myself off that balcony," he moaned. "Let me know if you need help," Jericho said. ~ Libba Bray

Grinning, he grabbed his fisherman's cap and coat. "I love you," he whispered quietly. "Ikh hob dikh lib." He kissed Evie's head. She rustled in her sleep, turning away. "Fine. I see how it is. I just wasted my best Yiddish on you," Sam joked to himself. ~ Libba Bray

One day, Evie O'Neill, you're gonna fall head over heels for me! ~ Libba Bray

Alliteration. It's when you repeat the same consonant in a phrase," Memphis explained. "Huh. I was hoping it was something dirty. ~ Libba Bray

I wish I could stop being in love with Sam. I really do. ~ Stephen Chbosky

The Killing Fields, my character's teachings frame the movie and the argument of his lectures is the challenge of dealing with the painfulness of life in the absence of faith. ~ Sam Waterston

M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations. ~ Sam Altman

The Christian faith is ultimately not only a matter of doctrine or understanding or of intellect, it is a condition of the heart. ~ David Lloyd-Jones

How people treat you does not matter, what matters is how you care for others. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I still wasn't entirely convinced that if somebody suddenly gave me the power to snap my fingers and cease to exist, I wouldn't use it.

I wasn't suicidal anymore. But once you go there, once your mind has seriously weighed it as a possibility, it never really goes away. It's always there - always an option. ~ Sam J. Miller

Commit to your business. Believe in it more than anybody else. ~ Sam Walton

The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is. ~ Sam Shepard

Start thinking about making a success, you have a successful destiny. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was defective and I feel the inconvenience, if not the misfortune of not receiving a classical education. Knowledge is the food of genius, and my son, let no opportunity escape you to treasure up knowledge. ~ Sam Houston

The nice thing about piracy is, it allows the public to get independent art, to get a variety of music and movies. ~ Lloyd Kaufman

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

Hate is the complement of fear and narcissists like being feared. It imbues them with an intoxicating sensation of omnipotence. ~ Sam Vaknin

Corlda looked at them both in sheer terror her eyes where firmly fixed on the camera "Agres..." she stammered Agres stopped tending to Tria and joined her. ~ Charon Lloyd-Roberts

Sam to Jory I knew the difference then, I know the difference now. You're it, you're home for me. If it's not you, it won't be anybody. I can't settle, it's all or nothing. ~ Mary Calmes

the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like. ~ Sam Miller

You can be happy! Seek pleasurable satisfaction and enjoy your state of well-being. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ? ~ Georges Clemenceau

I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, "I want you to listen to me, if you can." I leaned the side of my face against his ruff and remembered the golden wood he had shown me so long ago. I remembered the way the yellow leaves, the color of Sam's eyes, fluttered and twisted, crashing butterflies, on their way to the ground. The slender white trunks of the birches, creamy and smooth as human skin. I remembered Sam standing in the middle of the wood, his arms stretched out, a dark, solid form in the dream of the trees. His coming to me, me punching his chest, the soft kiss. I remembered every kiss we'd ever had, and I remembered every time I'd curled in his human arms. I remembered the soft warmth of his breath on the back of my neck while we slept.
I remembered Sam. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them. ~ Christopher Lloyd

In 2010, the BBC spent nearly £230,000 on tea, but only £2000 on biscuits. ~ John Lloyd

There's never an excuse to be cruel. When you meet someone new, think first about all the good and the sad and the wonder and the worry that's probably blooming in their heart. Just like yours. ~ Natalie Lloyd

A lot of people here some South in your mouth, and they automatically think you're dumb. They think if you talk funny, you are funny. – Lloyd Hand ~ David Pietrusza

I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy. ~ Christopher Lloyd

Learn how to accept mistakes.
to smiLe despite of the bitterness of yesterday.
To Love despite of the broken heart.
To appreciate despite of the disappointment
To forgive even if it seems like impossible.
And to always Start anew despite of everything. ~ Sam Dosdos

promise me, Sam: whatever it takes to win, whatever it takes to survive."
"Astrid - "
Suddenly she grabbed his face with one hand and squeezed too hard. "You listen to me. I'm not losing you because you played fair. You're not getting killed. You're not dying. This isn't some doomed last mission. Do you understand me? This does not end with me crying and missing you every day for the rest of my life. This ends with us walking out of this nightmare together. You and me, Sam. ~ Michael Grant

You were amazing," Sam said.
I let that sink in. Samirah wasn't big on doling out praise any more than Mallory wa big on doling out apologies.
"Well, it wasn't poetry," I said at last. "More like pure panic."
"Maybe there's not much difference," Sam said. "Besides just take the compliment, Chase. ~ Rick Riordan

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another. ~ Sam Harris

All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low. ~ Sam Altman

There is an alternative to simply identifying with the next thought that pops into consciousness. And glimpsing this alternative dispels the conventional illusion of the self. ~ Sam Harris

Master Sam - After that, I'm going to fuck you." She could hear the control in his voice. "Hurt you and fuck you so hard that everyone in the club hears you scream my name. ~ Cherise Sinclair

Freedom of speech is central to most every other right that we hold dear in the United States and serves to strengthen the democracy of our great country. It is unfortunate, then, when actions occur that might be interpreted as contrary to this honored tenet. ~ Sam Farr

Being wealthy is important as being happy. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Love of an idea is the love of God. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you've committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let's say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it's morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can't have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intu ~ Sam Harris

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better. ~ Sam Yagan

Ingra just kept a straight face he hoped Vilenthe was joking. "Anyway." Ingra tried to bring the topic full circle ~ Charon Lloyd-Roberts

Is it possible to have too much ambition? Is it possible to be too successful? ~ Lloyd Blankfein

Grace ceases to be grace if God is compelled to bestow it in the presence of human merit. ~ Sam Storms

When you make sacrifice, remember the principles; when you work, get wealthy. ~ Anyaele Sam Chiyson

Be you, be true to your word, don't sell yourself short and don't waste your life worrying. ~ Sam Owen

I smiled. "So this horse is your nephew, Sam?"
She glared at me. "Let's not go there."
"How did your dad father a horse?"
Blitzen coughed. "Actually, Loki was Sleipnir's mother."
"What
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"Let's definitely not go there," Sam warned. ~ Rick Riordan

Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. ~ Sam Levenson

Friends often tell me how much their grandchildren enjoy 'Are You Being Served?' It doesn't matter that they were not even born when it was broadcast, or that they belong to a very different world. ~ Jeremy Lloyd

I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it. ~ Sam Taylor-Wood

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

It's like putting on new clothes, Sam had told him. The fit feels strange at first, but once you've worn them for a while you get to feeling comfortable. ~ George R R Martin