Samsill Professional Padfolio Quotes & Sayings

The motive behind my arguments have always been to come at truth. I am not interested in conquering anyone with my ideologies or seeking converts. There are no absolute philosophies, not one argument that does not have its drawbacks. To paint debates as homogenous is to insult those who risked thinking outside of the box, the people who made our civilization possible. — Crystal Evans

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making? — Betty MacDonald

I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful, than a lifetime of nothing special. — Robert Harling

What is fact? What records did the church, in its misguided attempt to cleanse the past of perceived contradictions, rewrite to suit its preferred narrative? — Brandon Sanderson

Last night, we IM'd so late, I fell asleep with my computer on my lap and woke to his words dinging on my screen. Three things, he said: (1) good morning, (2) I have keybord marks on my face. slept on the "sdfg." (3) you leave in 24 hours, and I'm going to miss you. — Julie Buxbaum

Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can't have. And then about what you receive and misuse. — Jonathan Lethem

Rust is nature's rebuke of our vanity that the things we build of iron and steel will last.

From "Tractor Bones and Rusted Trucks" - not yet published — Greg Seeley

Going in the known is like knowing the rules, once you know it... better you will do it. — Deyth Banger

It is true that you get what you tolerate. — Henry Cloud

I have friends struggling with autism, juvenile diabetes. — Nicole Ari Parker

Dead. It was me who was with her, me who found her. Felt her throat, no pulse. I gotta tell you, Red, there is nothin', not one thing in the world worse than puttin' your hand to the throat of someone you love and ... feelin' ... nothin'. — Kristen Ashley

To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage. — Henri Matisse

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. — Bret Easton Ellis

Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear. — Shannon Miller