Sam Quotes
I will not deny that there are men in the district better qualified than I to go to Congress, but gentlemen, these men are not in the race.
Make the basic shot-making decision early, clearly and firmly, and then ritualize all the necessary acts of preparation.
Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.
Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster.
One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
I had confidence that as long as we did our work well and were good to our customers, there would be no limit to us.
Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.
No, I am not afraid; the Lord said he would protect me, and I have full confidence in His word.
Another fella told me, he had a sister who looked just fine. Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance to a cat name of Frankenstein.
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.
I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman.
If you could find a major city that actually had a functioning, good public school system, you should buy all the real estate.
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.
If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!
Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.
The woods were made for the hunters of dreams, The brooks for the fishers of song; To the hunters who hunt for the gunless game The streams and the woods belong.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game you've got to sit on your imagination.
It was something I enjoyed doing and decided to give it a couple years, though I'm not making a lot of money now either!
The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
Don't try to go too fast. Learn your job. Don't ever talk until you know what you're talking about... If you want to get along, go along.
Unlike statements of fact, which require no further work on our part, lies must be continually protected from collisions with reality.
PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family
