Sam Quotes

The atheist, by merely being in touch with reality, appears shamefully out of touch with the fantasy life of his neighbors.

The three things I fear most in golf are lightning, Ben Hogan and a downhill putt.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

As we consider the fast pace of scientific and technological progress in our modern world, we must not lose our moral compass and give way to 'free market eugenics'.

To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.

Values reduce to facts about the well-being of conscious creatures.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

Everything without God is pathetically inferior to God without everything.

I looked like a monkey trying to wrestle a football.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.

There's no way to reconcile Islam with Christianity. This difference of opinion admits of compromise as much as a coin toss does.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they don't compare with the number of stupid words spoken in earnest.

I've always been into endurance sport, which I think is more about your mind pushing your body, which is definitely why that Bear Grylls book sung to me.

I'm not a quick study, so I'm always struggling for my words right up until.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

[Vice chairman of Barbour] Helen [Barbour] and I realized that I come from the same village that her ancestor John Barbour came from, who created Barbour. It just seemed like such a great connection.

When I ask you what club to use, look the other way and don't answer.

I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.

What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.

We are free to burn the Qur’an or any other book, and to criticize Muhammad or any other human being. Let no one forget it.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I felt as though I were snorting cocaine, or rappelling down a cliffside, or cliffsurfing off a cliff of pure cocaine.

My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Let me assure you that my intent is not to offend or merely be provocative. I'm simply worried.

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there.

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

I make big shots everywhere. I get accustomed to it. I'm not afraid to be the goat. I don't worry about what you (reporters) say about me in the papers. In fact, I like it. It tickles me.

The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.

Fashions come and fashions go, but pockets are usually the same. There's little change in them.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

I've spent my entire career on horseback or on a motorcycle. It boxes you in, the way people perceive you.

Nothing in the world can replace the modern swimsuit, and it practically has.

The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.

A victim of the use of water as a beverage.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.