Samuel Quotes

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.

For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or imaged or remembered or thought.

It is more difficult to designate this form of conation on its practical side by a satisfactory name.

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

... when demand is being destroyed by expensive oil just as expensive oil is incentivising increased production - it should come as no surprise that at some point the markets would react.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not...

I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

After law school, I had the opportunity to clerk for a tremendous judge, Leonard I. Garth, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the court to which I was appointed in 1990.

If settled means that it cant be re-examined, thats one thing. If settled means that it is a precedent that is entitled to respect then it is a precedent that is protected.

I attended the public schools.And I have happy memories and strong memories of those days and good memories of the good sense and the decency of my friends and my neighbors.

This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas.

It's been a great honor for me to spend my career in public service.

My grandparents came worked hard, and I believe they never regretted their decision to come here and make a new start.

As I mentioned, things were particularly hard during the Depression. My paternal grandfather was frequently out of work, and the family was evicted from their home.

Many people have been positive influences in my life. My parents, whom I mentioned, were the most important, but many of my teachers were also a big help to me.

I am especially indebted to a 10th grade English teacher who encouraged me to read great works of literature.

My mother is a first generation American. Her father worked in the Roebling Steel Mill in Trenton, New Jersey.And yet my mother became the first person in her family to get a college degree.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

If I'm confirmed I'll be myself.

War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.

You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.

I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years worth of graduates behind me.

The thing about Dirk [Gently] is that he's very lonely.

Elijah Wood is interested in people, in life and in music.

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.

I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.

When you actually get successful, if you became a recognized director, people would let you come up with an idea for a video and they would let you do it.

I try. I fail. I try again. I fail better.

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.

There's no lack of void.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

Love requited is a short circuit.

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

in reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure

I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.

To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.

How hideous is the semicolon.

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

We are all born; some remain so.

What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors.

Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!

I cannot explain my plays. Each must find out for himself what is meant

Was I asleep? Had I slept?

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

Light black. From pole to pole.