Samuel Butler Quotes

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LoveBestEasyDoneForgiveUs

My mother was an Earth Mother and the nicest person in the world.

Angelina Jolie

MotherWorldEarthPersonNicest

In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.

John Waters

BeginningThinkKnowRentWhereGot

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

Sigmar Gabriel

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China is beginning to act more like a world citizen. We need China to be more active on the world stage. For example, we should want China to be a bigger participant and a bigger shareholder in the IMF. We should want it to be an even more active participant in the G8 and G20.

Roger Altman

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I see a lot of opportunity in Internet-related start-ups, and second is the solar business.

Masayoshi Son

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There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Michael Palin

WalkTravelCuriousPeopleMeWorld

Fame was initially this kind of blunt tool that was thrust into my hands very young.

Josh Hartnett

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My whole background is theater, and theater is to some degree presentational.

Connie Britton

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I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.

Bobby Darin

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Where defining foreign policy as 'ethical' went wrong was that it implied that all decisions would be exclusive in every respect of any dealings with unethical regimes.

William Hague

RespectDecisionsWrongEthical

When text messaging first came out, you could only text within your network, whatever operator you had. It seems silly now, but once those walls came down, all sorts of applications and services were built on top of that. It ended up being good for everybody.

Peggy Johnson

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Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Penn Jillette

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