Samuel Quotes

Samuel Quote of the day

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

There is no problem the mind of man can set that the mind of man cannot solve.

If you do not love me I shall not be loved. If I do not love you I shall not love.

I just completed a long car trip on a Sunday in August with two small children, which believe me is enough to convince you that Samuel Beckett was right about everything.

Expectations should not always be taken as reality

You want a sermon? Jesus died and resurrected and then run off to Heaven to leave us sinners here. Amen.

She ran the harder and zagged more erratically, and in the wreckage left from the hurricane the girl misjudged her path and ran straight into the old well. She didn’t even scream.

I'm telling you that the cure is the disease. The main source of the illness in this world is the doctor's own illness

What one of us wants we all want. You a man of the earth as you are, you ought to have known we hunt in packs. And now I come to finish you.

Dead man shouldn’t have no fears. Makes his passing easier.

Lightening flashed again and again but above the shriek of the wind and the pounding hail they never heard the thunder.

I offer you your life, friend, and recommend you take it.

War’s all either country knows, and everything seems to depend on it now.

Tastes change, Cherie. I find the older I get the more I like to be reminded of my youth.

You don't live in the past

I don’t like coming over here at night, the girl said. The bayou is scary in the dark, all manner of things running wild out there.

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact

I make no claims. I have set down the facts

When others sit, a #StaticJedi is found standing—even standing along, with a message not in hand but secure in heart!

Babies do not want to hear about babies

Prose: words in their best order

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence

Unless you are ready to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, you'll forever be in the control of things you can't give up.

I’m beginning to think that the world is divided into two kinds of men: those you can marry and don’t want to

as they mock you due to your loss, you rise back strong and agile to win

What’s to become of us? We can’t go on like this.”“Yes, we can go on like this, ” said Cesare. “We can go on exactly like this for the rest of our lives.

Battling the noise is creating a space for God and acknowledging the space He occupies, which is all of it. Invite God into all twenty-four hours of your day.This is the path of a #StaticJedi.

The wise will make holiness and purity their priority.

The church is not a brick-and-mortar structure. The church is made of flesh & blood. Followers of #Christ are the church.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

An orphans curse would drag to hellA spirit from on high

Never glorify anger

You do not need an identity to become yourself

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him

Not having any drink about ain’t the same as not understanding the need for one. Times like these change a body’s perspective.