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Samuel Johnson Quotes

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: english
Birth: September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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Gratitude Pain Revenge Minds Return

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

Jerry A. Webman

Someone Out Helpful Us Economic

My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

Jerry Kramer

Life Experience Whole Been Seeking

When it comes to civilian deaths, violent hostilities play no favorites.

John Conyers

Play Violent Favorites Deaths

I have always loved Broadway.

Melissa Etheridge

Loved Always Broadway

I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.

Amy Smart

Life Decision Me Kind Right Just

I used to think there was something dirty about being paid for something which is a sacred thing to do. I can't disconnect the act of writing music from the act of prayer. If anyone tries to stop me working, it feels like someone is trying to stop me from taking communion.

John Tavener

Music Prayer Me Writing Think Dirty

When my friends and I grew up, we had 'Full House,' 'Growing Pains' and 'Roseanne.' These sitcoms were about something, about real people in a sense. They sort of super-sized real life where things aren't necessarily exactly how you go through them in daily life, but you can relate to something, and you can pull something out of it.

Steve Kazee

Life Daily Daily Life People Friends

If you do come across 'Sanctus' in a bookshop, please see past the cross on the cover and the sinister outline of a monk and just read the first page and make your own mind up. If it's still not for you, then that's fine; just put it back and walk away.

Simon Toyne

Walk Past Mind You Back Page

When you want to be a fighter, you have to give it everything you got. MMA just became who I am because of the amount of work I was putting into my training. It all starts in the gym. The hours turn into days, days into weeks, and weeks into months; it's like school - the more time you spend learning, the better you'll be prepared for a test.

Rose Namajunas

Work Learning Time Training School

There's nobody, pound-for-pound, that has what I have.

Luke Rockhold

Nobody

Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.

Anne Lamott

Mother Great Woman People Believe

But instead of standing up for reason, our government is handing education over to the world of faith.

Polly Toynbee

Education Faith Government World Up