FastSaying

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.


Samuel E. Morison

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views, too.
ADAM SMITH All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
It is something to think of
JANE AUSTEN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Everyone is getting more accustomed to it, ... We might get more complaints when school starts.
DONALD CLARK A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually
ABBA EBAN A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
ABBA EBAN Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to ...
ALISTAIR HORNE Everyone pretty much agrees it is the best gas-rich area that we know of today.
BRUCE MCKAY So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
SAMUEL E. MORISON Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
SAMUEL E. MORISON Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that ou...
SAMUEL E. MORISON The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of histori...
SAMUEL E. MORISON In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not o...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one m...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputatio...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto acc...
SAMUEL E. MORISON With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were sla...
SAMUEL E. MORISON If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond t...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
SAMUEL E. MORISON "Urgency and speed are...things that everyone agrees" Hewlett-Packard needs.
CARLY FIORINA Everyone agrees that it is good for members of Congress to get out in the world.
CHELLIE PINGREE Basically everyone agrees that building the wall is really what not needs to be done, and we need to...
ELIZABETH GALLAGHER I think everyone agrees we would have done better with a different leader,
CLARE SHORT We?re not pleased with the way we ended the season. But the other side of that coin is when the tour...
KIRBY DEAN Everyone agrees that the way the war has been managed has been terrible, and we need to start talkin...
BRENDAN DALY What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER We wanted to make sure that everyone has plenty to do when they come.
DEB PEDONE [B]ecause of all his previous attempts to integrate with the rest of society and what he had learned...
IAIN M. BANKS The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road R.L.S. We would have less stress, learn to handle our emotions better and listen to our bodies better. I th...
JOE INGELFINGER You can't be that or that or that... but you can try to behave as that...

So, what next!?...
DEYTH BANGER Everyone agrees we need to get more freight on to rail. But the Government is cutting the grant nece...
CHRIS GRAYLING We knew (McCrae) is going to make his shots. When he starts making them, they are going to come.
DERECK WHITTENBURG We are limiting the scope to transactional e-mails, which we define as bank statements or purchase r...
KAREN MAHON When truth knocks it usually falls on deaf ears. When falsehood fails in its plans it usually reache...
APURVA GAGLANI Everyone agrees that animals should not be exposed to unnecessary pain. But neither should scientist...
TIMOTHY NOAH We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER I was surprised at the end when we had the dissension. I still don't know what happened.
DEBBIE HUNSAKER It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another fa...
HELEN FIELDING Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth.
RICHARD WHATELY The challenge starts when you first come to Mumbai. But it's momentary if you win an award.
YAMI GAUTAM If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
MO UDALL If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong.
MORRIS K. UDALL The assumption is questions have been answered and everyone agrees.
DAVID LAKE When I was going through a tough phase in a training camp, I totally hated it. When it came to the l...
ZENG HAN JUN Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, di...
DANIEL J. BOORSTIN A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of p...
RON CARPENTER JR. Everyone in the industry agrees it's an amazing spot, ... It was the great location that made up our...
BILL JOHNSTON I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate wit...
DAN HARMON There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping...
DAVID HEWSON Two things I've learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone's mind on certain issues and 2) some is...
J.S.B. MORSE Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right...
DALE CARNEGIE Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
DIANE ACKERMAN Almost everyone agrees that there will be very strong correlations between what's in the brain and c...
DAVID CHALMERS Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it.
JEF I. RICHARDS With all due respect to everyone, there is no question that if AJ is fit, he starts, ... That is whe...
IAIN DOWIE We want everyone to come participate in that.
MARILYN LANGENHEDER Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT The problem is not general education itself. Everyone agrees on that. But the curriculum is given to...
BILL WHEELER We live in the Facebook era. I think everyone, not just celebrities, have an unprecedented level of ...
ALLISON WILLIAMS I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
DEB CALETTI You look at Barbara, Will, all of us, this is when Connecticut starts to play. When the tournaments ...
ANN STROTHER And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Discord, a sleepless hag who never dies, With Snipe-like nose, and Ferret-glowing eyes, Lean s...
DR. JOHN WOLCOT (WOLCOTT) (USED PSEUDONYM PETER PINDAR) Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That each pull'd different ways with many an oath, "Arcades ambo," id est--blackguards both.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love! Hearts that the world i...
THOMAS MOORE And old affront will stir the heart Through years of rankling pain.
JEAN INGELOW Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: ...
SIR SAMUEL GARTH If they perceive dissension in our looks And that within ourselves we disagree, How will their...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.
JEAN INGELOW Have always been at daggers-drawing, And one another clapper-clawing.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.
SANTOSH KALWAR Everyone is waiting for the war on the belief that once it starts, stocks are going to shoot up, but...
FRANK GRETZ Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (th...
CARLES PUYOL With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come Whate'er the subject be t...
JOHN BYROM All of us show bias when it comes to what information we take in. We typically focus on anything tha...
NOREENA HERTZ See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL When you are true to yourself, you will find yourself more easily able to pursue the things that mat...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
BIBLE Commercial speech is like obscenity... we can't seem to define it, but we know it when we see it...
JEF I. RICHARDS

More Samuel E. Morison

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
SAMUEL E. MORISON Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON I have nothing revolutionary or even novel to offer.
SAMUEL E. MORISON Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that ou...
SAMUEL E. MORISON The same contingencies of time and space that force a statesman or soldier to make decisions, impel ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Intellectual honesty is the quality that the public in free countries always has expected of histori...
SAMUEL E. MORISON In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not o...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one m...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputatio...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto acc...
SAMUEL E. MORISON With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of ...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were sla...
SAMUEL E. MORISON If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond t...
SAMUEL E. MORISON Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
SAMUEL E. MORISON [President Roosevelt won international recognition, orchestrating much of the negotiations himself f...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON He (Columbus) enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of ...
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON The executive exists to make sensible exceptions to general rules.
ELTING E. MORISON For a new fount to be successful it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.
STANLEY MORISON I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. ...
E. E. CUMMINGS I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blu...
E. E. CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E. E. CUMMINGS A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.
E. E. CUMMINGS Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.
E. E. CUMMINGS Palm Sunday In the person of Christ, the formidable law of God, which by itself appalls us by its...
E. E. JENKINS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E E CUMMINGS The only man, woman, or child who ever wrote a simple declarative sentence with seven grammatical er...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
E E CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E E CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E E CUMMINGS Life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E E CUMMINGS (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands
...
E E CUMMINGS I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
E. E. CUMMINGS It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn&#...
E. E. CUMMINGS who knows if the moon's / a balloon, coming out of a keen city / in the sky - filled with pretty peo...
E. E. CUMMINGS for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) / it's always ourselves we find in the sea
E. E. CUMMINGS The earth laughs in flowers.
E. E. CUMMINGS The Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls are unbeautiful and have comfortable minds.
E. E. CUMMINGS Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E. E. CUMMINGS I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is the deepest secret nobody knows.Here is the root of the root and the bud of the budAnd the s...
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"maggie and millie and molly and maywent down to the beach (to p...
E. E. CUMMINGS The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.
E. E. CUMMINGS and it's you whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
E. E. CUMMINGS I don't know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice o...
E. E. CUMMINGS Art is a mystery.A mystery is something immeasurable.In so far as every child and woman and man may ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Progress is a comfortable disease.
E. E. CUMMINGS Since feeling is first, who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you, w...
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love (a little) more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink
E. E. CUMMINGS We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, wort...
E. E. CUMMINGS next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
E. E. CUMMINGS he sang his didn't he danced his did
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little -- somebody who is obses...
E. E. CUMMINGS and down went / my Uncle / Sol / and started a worm farm
E. E. CUMMINGS If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsess...
E. E. CUMMINGS Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees
E. E. CUMMINGS "maggie and millie and molly and may"

maggie and millie and molly and may
went down to ...
E. E. CUMMINGS Why do you paint?
For exactly the same reason I breathe.
ThatÂ’s not an answer.
There is...
E. E. CUMMINGS The general who is able to persuade his forces that there is victory, even where there seems to be d...
H. E. E. HAYES I never liked you, and I always will.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
SAMUEL PEPYS Strange, to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our conditi...
SAMUEL PEPYS Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
SAMUEL PEPYS My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. M...
SAMUEL MORSE What God hath wrought?
SAMUEL MORSE My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. T...
SAMUEL LOVER Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman...
SAMUEL LOVER To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former j...
SAMUEL LOVER How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might,...
SAMUEL LOVER Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
SAMUEL LOVER When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. ...
SAMUEL LOVER Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
SAMUEL LOVER What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which ...
SAMUEL LOVER I'm not a very typical singer.
SAMUEL LARSEN I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN The thing that 'Glee' has successfully done that no other TV show has is that they're ju...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
SAMUEL LARSEN There aren't a whole lot of things I want out of life. My bucket list is extremely short: Achiev...
SAMUEL LARSEN I think what turned me off of Christianity as a kid, and what I think turns other people off, is the...
SAMUEL LARSEN I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously bef...
SAMUEL LARSEN You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a very mellow person. There are things about me that are intense, obviously.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with ...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
SAMUEL LARSEN I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we'...
SAMUEL LARSEN Being a big fan of 'Glee,' I want to do the show justice.
SAMUEL LARSEN On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense her...
SAMUEL LARSEN The first time I heard 'Jolene,' I was 12 years old, and it was performed by Jack White. I r...
SAMUEL LARSEN One of the biggest things I learned was that it's OK to be nervous and admit that you're hav...
SAMUEL LARSEN I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
SAMUEL LARSEN I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
SAMUEL LARSEN I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.
SAMUEL LARSEN I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.
SAMUEL LARSEN Some of the craziest people I know, some of the coolest guys I know who party and go crazy and play ...
SAMUEL LARSEN Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.
SAMUEL LARSEN There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
SAMUEL LARSEN The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
SAMUEL LARSEN I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV...
SAMUEL LARSEN He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own...
SAMUEL JOHNSON No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Love is only one of many passions.
SAMUEL JOHNSON My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Despotism is the only form of government which may with safety to itself, neglect the education of i...
SAMUEL HORSLEY Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discove...
SAMUEL HORSLEY In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS God saw fit, for wise reasons to allow the people of Israel thus to make and possess slaves; but is ...
SAMUEL HOPKINS If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Willingness to be damned for the glory of God.
SAMUEL HOPKINS These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for...
SAMUEL HOPKINS Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and th...
SAMUEL HOPKINS However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
SAMUEL HOPKINS My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, ...
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a w...
SAMUEL GOMPERS It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
SAMUEL GOMPERS We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to dem...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice a...
SAMUEL GOMPERS The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liber...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
SAMUEL GOMPERS Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where yo...
SAMUEL FULLER You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th...
SAMUEL FULLER Being a hooker does not mean being evil. The same with a pick-pocket, or even a thief. You do what y...
SAMUEL FULLER When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of th...
SAMUEL FULLER We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
SAMUEL FULLER Surviving is the only glory in war.
SAMUEL FULLER When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent.
SAMUEL FOOTE Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
SAMUEL FOOTE He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.
SAMUEL FOOTE Death and the dice level all distinctions.
SAMUEL FOOTE Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. S...
SAMUEL DASH I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I migh...
SAMUEL DASH I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.
SAMUEL DASH One of the things I realized early in my career is that you do what you believe, in knowing that if ...
SAMUEL DASH While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wan...
SAMUEL DASH I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay...
SAMUEL DASH Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its out...
SAMUEL DASH I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and infor...
SAMUEL DASH When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a di...
SAMUEL DASH We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace an...
SAMUEL CHASE Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
SAMUEL CHASE By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and den...
SAMUEL CHASE People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
SAMUEL BUTLER