Samuel Butler Quotes

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

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I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

Jennifer Nettles

MeMy OwnOwnPerfectionismHow

All truths begin as hearsay, as far as I'm concerned.

Matt Drudge

BeginFarConcernedHearsayTruths

The body is ready to have babies. Nature wants it done then, when the body can handle it, not after 40, when the income can handle it.

Toni Morrison

NatureBodyReadyDoneHandleWants

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

Roger Babson

LookWayUpOurFlatBacks

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

Jason Reitman

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When I come onstage, I'm exploding.

Dick Dale

ComeOnstageExploding

I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.

Dierks Bentley

SongBlackMoreEveryoneYearsBeen

When I wrote 'Southern Baptist Sissies,' that was the first time that I really ventured out into pure drama with themes where there was not one laugh sometimes. But I've always gravitated organically to blending tones and usually get good reviews about that. That's what life is about.

Del Shores

LifeGoodTimeLaughDramaFirst

When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and minds. Especially our own.

Dean Ornish

WarPeopleWinBattleLostMinds

I feel that I will be more of a feature director, and I will go away completely from videos. I want to do features and have written several of them. I'm looking to be more like a Steven Spielberg.

Chris Stokes

LookingFeelGoWantWillMore

In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

Chris Van Hollen

TimeMyselfTogetherPlanLongWay

Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth.

Anthony Carmona

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