Viscount Samuel Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge, to become Wisdom, needs Judgment. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

The ethical system that will dominate the world-state will be shaped primarily to favor the procreation of what is fine and efficient and beautiful in humanity - beautiful and strong bodies, clear and powerful minds - and to check the procreation of base and servile type. — H.G.Wells

I've always sung in the shower. Now I make the stage a mental shower in order not to get too uptight and enjoy it. — Elizabeth Taylor

You must create the character's internal life. What do I mean by internal life? I mean the thoughts, feelings, memories, and inner decisions that may not be spoken. When we look into the eyes of actors giving fully realized performances, we can see them thinking. We're interested in what they're experiencing that may never be spoken, that quality of nonverbal expression - which is as much a part of the characters as breathing and as real as what they say and do. This is their internal life. It helps us believe in the characters and care about them. — Larry Moss

when children were hospitalized for treatment of severe burns, the development of PTSD could be predicted by how safe they felt with their mothers.31 The security of their attachment to their mothers predicted the amount of morphine that was required to control their pain - the more secure the attachment, the less painkiller was needed. — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

It's ironic that most evangelical churches are filled with people who live very much like the world but look different from it. It should be exactly the opposite. We should look similar to those in our community but act differently. — Ed Stetzer

Science is the key which unlocks the storehouses of nature. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Without doubt the greatest injury of all was done by basing morals on myth. For, sooner or later, myth is recognized for what it is, and disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Some people reach the age of sixty before others. — Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood

In the end men love better that for which they have made sacrifices than that through which they have enjoyed pleasures. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

I have lately obtained the opinion of a number of Chief Constables, who declare with almost complete unanimity that the recent great increase in juvenile delinquency is, to a considerable extent, due to demoralising cinematograph films. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

I betrayed him, he betrayed me but you betrayed both of us in a thousand different ways — Victoria Aveyard

Did you catch the time-of-great-suffering thing?"
Her expression softened. "Can you just make sure I'm not around when it happens?"
"No can do," I said, strolling back to my office with a negating wave of my hand. "If I have to suffer, then so does everyone else within a ten-mile radius."
She pursed her lips. "What ever happened to taking one for the team?"
"Was never much of a team player."
"Sacrificing yourself for the greater good?"
"Not that into human sacrifice."
"Suffering in silence?"
I stopped and turned back to her, my eyes narrowing accusingly. "If I have to suffer, I'll be screaming your name at the top of my lungs the whole time. You'll be able to hear me all the way to Jersey, mark my words."
- Charley to Cookie — Darynda Jones

The house of Lords must be the only institution in the world which is kept efficient by the persistent absenteeism of most of its members. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU. — Bryant H. McGill

A difficulty for every solution. — Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

You're so narrow-minded! You live in the same village you grew up in, you run the family business, you're buying a nursery down the road ... you're practically still in the womb. So before you lecture me on the way to live my life, try living one of your own, OK? — Sophie Kinsella

Equality of opportunity is an equal opportunity to prove unequal talents. — David Samuel, 3rd Viscount Samuel

It was a sin to break a deathbed promise.
Arin left without making one. — Marie Rutkoski