Samuel Lieberman Quotes

Every dancer knows that being technically perfect isn't good enough. We need to know why we dance. For me, it's to be connected. I'm inspired by my friends. ~ Sammy Lieberman

We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none. ~ Samuel Johnson

Spare the rod and spoil the child. ~ Samuel Butler

Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time. ~ Samuel Garth

Sweet memory, wafted by the gentle gale,
Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail,
To view the fairy haunts of long-lost hours,
Blest with far greener shades, far fresher flowers. ~ Samuel Rogers

On Second Street, corner of Norris Alley, was a commodious house, known as the Slate-roof House, and built before 1700 by James Porteus for Samuel Carpenter, who sold it to Penn. ~ J. Thomas Scharf

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence. ~ Samuel Butler

The poor and the busy have no leisure for sentimental sorrow. ~ Samuel Johnson

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Sometimes, good things that go wrong are like seeds. They have to be buried for something bigger and better to sprout out of them. ~ Charles Samuel D'Monte

Then Samuel died and the world shattered like a dish. ~ John Steinbeck

Many are friends to the success of reformation, not to reformation. ~ Samuel Rutherford

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. ~ Samuel Richardson

I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement. ~ Samuel Larsen

ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think. ~ Samuel Beckett

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. ~ Samuel Johnson

One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're having a hard time. ~ Samuel Larsen

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

feelings are not passing clouds ; they are raining clouds....! ~ Felix A. Samuel

Apocalypse has come and gone. We're just grubbing in the ashes. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through by-paths to private profit, no great change can suddenly be made; nor is superior knowledge of much effect, where every man resolves to use his own eyes and his own judgment, and every one applauds his own dexterity and diligence, in proportion as he becomes rich sooner than his neighbour. ~ Samuel Johnson

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Our union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved. You are now the guardians of your own liberties. ~ Samuel Adams

Do you know how hard it is to make a home? ... That's something that a woman does from inside herself. You do it in the face of all sorts of opposition. Husbands are very appreciative when it works out well. But they're not that anxious to help. It's understandable. They don't know how. ~ Samuel R. Delany

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt. ~ Samuel Johnson

In other words, such is he desire which everyone has to exculpate himself by blackening his neighbour. You and I, Belford, have been very kind to the world in furnishing it with many opportunities to gratify its devil. ~ Samuel Richardson

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary. ~ Samuel Alito

No matter, no matter how, they are doing the best they can, with the miserable means at their disposal, a voice, a little light, poor devils, that's what they're paid for, they say, No sign of hardening, no sign of softening, impossible to say, no matter, it's a good average, we only have to continue, one day he'll understand, one day he'll thrill, the little spasm will come, a change in the eye, and cast him up among us. To be on the watch and never sight, to listen for the moan that never comes, that's not a life worth living either. And yet it's theirs. ~ Samuel Beckett

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Since life itself is uncertain, nothing which has life for its basis can boast much stability. ~ Samuel Johnson

No one does anything from a single motive. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cant is the parrot talk of a profession. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And in Life's noisiest hour,
There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee,
The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy.
You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within ;
And to the leading Love-throb in the Heart
Thro' all my Being, thro' my pulse's beat ;
You lie in all my many Thoughts, like Light,
Like the fair light of Dawn, or summer Eve
On rippling Stream, or cloud-reflecting Lake.
And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot that made me love you. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How long in that same fit I lay, I have not to declare; But ere my living life returned, I heard and in my soul discerned Two VOICES in the air. "Is it he?" quoth one, "Is this the man? By him who died on cross, With his cruel bow he laid full low, The harmless Albatross. "The spirit who bideth by himself In the land of mist and snow, He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow." The other was a softer voice, As soft as honey-dew: Quoth he, "The man hath penance done, And penance more will do. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The rules that I shall propose concerning secrecy, and from which I think it not safe to deviate without long and exact deliberation, are, never to solicit the knowledge of a secret,
not willingly, nor without many limitations, to accept such confidence when it is offered; when a secret is once admitted, to consider the trust as of a very high nature, important as society and sacred as truth, and therefore not to be violated for any incidental convenience, or slight appearance of contrary fitness. ~ Samuel Johnson

Well, thinking about what's not supposed to require thinking, that is philosophy, no? ~ Samuel R. Delany