I Samuel Quotes

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

I make my patients feel like they're still part of life, part of some grand nutty scheme instead of alone with their diseases. With me, they still feel part of the human race.

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.

I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.

I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.

I think that what my parents taught me about hard work, optimism and education still holds true.

Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

Christ has no velvet crosses.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

The charm of London is that you are never glad or sorry for ten minutes together; in the country you are one or the other for weeks.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.

Knowledge always desires increase, it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.

I wonder many times that ever a child of God should have a sad heart, considering what their Lord is preparing for them.

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.

Verily, we know not what an evil it is to indulge ourselves, and to make an idol of our will.

My wife's hands are very beautiful. I'm going to have a bust made of them.

This book has too much plot and not enough story.

There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation.

In all pleasures hope is a considerable part.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.

When I'm not working, I like to play golf.

Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

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

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.

Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

To pray as God would have us pray is the greatest achievement of earth.

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.