Samuel Johnson Quotes

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Samuel Johnson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeMindHumanPleasureHuman Mind

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Jean-Paul Sartre

GodJusticeMeCareTeachNeed

My mother lives with me in Milan, while my father travels to and from Savona. My parents take care of my money, too.

Stephan El Shaarawy

FatherMotherMoneyParentsMeCare

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

FamilyTruthMyselfChildhoodMe

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 meters... nobody except me.

Steve Prefontaine

GoodDayGood DayMeNobodyRace

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it.

Robert Fisk

WarMeBookSillyDesireHis

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

Lou Holtz

DecisionPeopleMeYouBadCountry

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

Judy Sheindlin

WorkHard WorkSuccessNegativeRich

I like a good old thriller.

Dean-Charles Chapman

GoodOldLikeThriller

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Boris Pasternak

LiveManBrainyBornPrepare

Growing up, we had folk records.

Alison Krauss

Growing UpGrowingUpRecordsFolk

I grew up in Shanghai 'til I was 10 or 11, with one year in Tibet. When I was 5 or 6 years old, the American radio station came to Shanghai, and I used to love bebop and jazz, but I didn't know where it came from.

Peter Max

LoveAmericanYearKnowJazzRadio

ON the decline of the Roman power, about five centuries after Christ, the countries of Northern Europe were left almost destitute of a national government.

Thomas Bulfinch

PowerGovernmentEuropeLeftAlmost

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