Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.


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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
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
SAMUEL CHASE
I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
SAMUEL LARSEN
It is idleness that is the curse of man - not labour. Idleness eats the heart out of men as of natio...
SAMUEL SMILES
Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself...
SAMUEL SMILES
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.
SAMUEL SMILES
Work is one of the best educators of practical character.
SAMUEL SMILES
Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we ...
SAMUEL SMILES
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road...
SAMUEL SMILES
Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gi...
SAMUEL SMILES
Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing...
SAMUEL SMILES
I'm as happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
SAMUEL SMILES
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.
SAMUEL SMILES
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - th...
SAMUEL SMILES