Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.


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Journalists have sometimes looked to my Twitter account and quoted me from there, and that's fin...
SAMUEL BARNETT
I like all sorts of art, that's why I love wandering around The National Gallery.
SAMUEL BARNETT
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to d...
SAMUEL BARBER
I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York R...
SAMUEL BARBER
I think that what's been holding composers back a great deal is that they feel they must have a ...
SAMUEL BARBER
As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write...
SAMUEL BARBER
I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual sto...
SAMUEL BARBER
I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the lates...
SAMUEL BARBER
There's no reason music should be difficult for an audience to understand.
SAMUEL BARBER
I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being...
SAMUEL BARBER
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unplea...
SAMUEL BARBER
If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
SAMUEL ALITO
I have been a judge for 15 years and I've made up my own mind during all that time.
SAMUEL ALITO
Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secul...
SAMUEL ALITO
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation...
SAMUEL ALITO
I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.
SAMUEL ALITO
I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decisio...
SAMUEL ALITO
It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through thei...
SAMUEL ADAMS
There is a solid satisfaction in one's having and being conscious that he merits the good opinio...
SAMUEL ADAMS
Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a shar...
SAMUEL ADAMS
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ...
SAMUEL ADAMS
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS
The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER
That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting win...
SAMUEL LOVER
In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
XAVIER SAMUEL
My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
XAVIER SAMUEL
Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of...
XAVIER SAMUEL
I don't know that many Australian actors in Los Angeles, but there are a few of us. I mean, we k...
XAVIER SAMUEL
I studied Shakespeare all through high school. Both of my parents teach English and history, so it h...
XAVIER SAMUEL
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen.
SAMUEL LOVER
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality ...
SAMUEL GOMPERS