I Samuel Quotes

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

It’s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator’s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist’s.

The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

I would rather die upon yonder gallows, than live in slavery.

No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

My mistakes are my life.

But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep in safety.

Our only concern should be to keep the fight [for souls] aggressive and to win victory regardless of cost or sacrifice.

There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

But then I came to the conclusion that no, while there may be an immigration problem, it isn't really a serious problem. The really serious problem is assimilation.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance.

There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.

He dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

To restore silence is the role of objects.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

No man does anything from a single motive.

If the American Revolution had produced nothing but the Declaration of Independence, it would have been worthwhile.

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.

Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.

The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.

My dear friend, clear your mind of can't.

Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

Birth was the death of him.

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.

Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion

Alas, the very name of picture produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe.

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.