Dr Sampson Davis Quotes & Sayings

Fanaticism and Ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding. — Jerome Lawrence

I'm glad I struggled. I think I'd be an asshole if my money were anything other than the "new" kind. — Amy Schumer

When, as my friend suggested, I stand before Zeus (whether I die naturally, or under sentence of History)I will repeat all this that I have written as my defense.Many people spend their entire lives collecting stamps or old coins, or growing tulips. I am sure that Zius will be merciful toward people who have given themselves entirely to these hobbies, even though they are only amusing and pointless diversions. I shall say to him : "It is not my fault that you made me a poet, and that you gave me the gift of seeing simultaneously what was happening in Omaha and Prague, in the Baltic states and on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.I felt that if I did not use that gift my poetry would be tasteless to me and fame detestable. Forgive me." And perhaps Zeus, who does not call stamp-collectors and tulip-growers silly, will forgive. — Czeslaw Milosz

This is not a time to back away from the principles that this country was founded on. — Jeff Bingaman

I can't be around you right now. It hurts too much, because I am so completely and desperately in love you, Tweet. — Alison G. Bailey

That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine. — Jennifer Worth

I play hard. So the critical stuff doesn't surprise me or bother me. — Larry Gagosian

You whispered my full name and we fell asleep in each other's arms and I remember how the next morning you were gone, completely gone, and nothing in my bed or the house could have proven otherwise. — Junot Diaz

One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have windows with trees in them. — Bel Kaufman

The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of man nor any combination of minds can even envision, let alone intelligently control, the countless human energy exchanges in a simple society, to say nothing of a complex one. — Leonard Read

Anyway, as they say, where there's life, there's hope. So let us eat. — Catherine Cookson

I deal in a very artistic way of what interests me and marks my passion, and I try to - whether its good or not - am in love with acting and the stage and characters and the ability to reach and to touch people, so that's where, I guess, that's where my heart will reside, by and large. — Angela Bassett