Top 72 1 Samuel Quotes
#1. Religious Jews believe that all things come from God, as God owns everything. The Tanakh says, "The Lord makes some poor and others rich; he brings some down and lifts others up" (NLT, 1 Samuel 2:7). "The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it" (NIV, Proverbs 10:22).
H.W. Charles
#2. It matters not that giants of tribulation torment you. Your prayerful access to help is just as real as when David battled his Goliath. see 1 Samuel 17.
Russell M. Nelson
#3. Do not look on [her] appearance or on the height of [her] stature, because I have rejected [her]; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7
Anonymous
#4. The young man, who intends no ill,
Believes that none is intended, and therefore
Acts with openness and candor: but his father, having suffered the injuries of fraud, is impelled to suspect, and too often allured to practice it.
Samuel Johnson
#6. We often hear the terms 'positional' and 'tactical' used as opposites. But this is as wrong as to consider a painting's composition unrelated to its subject. Just as there is no such thing as 'artistic' art, so there is no such thing as 'positional' chess.
Samuel Reshevsky
#7. The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
Samuel R. Delany
#8. I was out of sorts. They are deep, my sorts, a deep ditch, and I am not often out of them.
Samuel Beckett
#9. ABNODATION (ABNODA'TION) n.s.[abnodatio, Lat.] The act of cutting away knots from trees;a term of gardening.Dict.
Samuel Johnson
#10. Don't worry about the consequences, just be a writer!
Samuel Colbran
#11. Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.
Samuel Johnson
#13. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
#14. He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
Samuel Johnson
#15. Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.
Samuel Johnson
#16. The dead they sleep a long, long sleep; The dead they rest, and their rest is deep; The dead have peace, but the living weep.
Samuel Hoffenstein
#17. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
#18. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.
Samuel Johnson
#19. There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#20. Fundamentally only two great novelties have come out of recent warfare. They are: (1) mechanical vehicles, which relieve the Soldier of equipment hitherto carried by him; (2) air supply, which relieves the vehicle of the road.
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#21. ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use.
Samuel Johnson
#22. There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#23. ACOUSTICKS (ACO'USTICKS) n.s.[Gr. to hear.]1. The doctrine or theory of sounds.2. Medicines to help the hearing.Quincy.
Samuel Johnson
#24. The God who is to be feared because of his devastating judgment of evil is also the one who 'blessed Noah and his sons' (Genesis 9:1).
Samuel Ngewa
#25. When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Samuel Beckett
#26. The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)
Beth Moore
#27. In description words adhere to certain objects, and have the effect on the sense of oysters, or barnacles.
William Carlos Williams
#28. ... he grabbed my hand again. That same warmth hit me, seeping into my skin. I bit my lip and forced myself not to relish in the tingling heat. Samuel's eyes widened. Fangs erupted from his gums. His nostrils flared as he inhaled me.
Kenya Wright
#29. Remember ... that you are redeemed of the Lord [Ephesians 1:7]-that you are bought with a price [1 Corinthians 6:20], even the inestimable price of the precious blood of the Son of God ... Acquaint yourselves with Him in His word and holy ordinances.
William Samuel Johnson
#31. Lay down, please. Samuel's voice stroked my ears like a man seducing his lover after they'd suffered a long absence.
Kenya Wright
#32. Do you know how hard it's been to not fuck you this whole journey?" he asked inside my head.
"Why can't I make love to you? Your husband sent you off to breed with a vampire." Samuel's fangs retracted. "Last time I checked, I was a vampire.
Kenya Wright
#33. The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.
Samuel Rutherford
#35. [Samuel Prescott was] returning from a lady friend's house at the awkward hour of 1 a.m.
John M. Murrin
#36. Sentences I never thought I would write. (1) That John Prescott certainly has a way with the ladies. (2) Give it to Steve McClaren, he seems like the man for the England job. (3) Peter Crouch is the man to replace Rooney.
Martin Samuel
#37. Samuel, "Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart" (1 Sam. 16:7).
Vicki Courtney
#39. Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
Samuel Alexander
#40. There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
Samuel Johnson
#41. Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
Samuel Johnson
#42. That's the trouble with directors. Always biting the hand that lays the golden egg.
Samuel Goldwyn
#43. The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations.
Samuel George Morton
#44. Reaffirming their Western identity and Westerners accepting their civilization as unique not universal and uniting to renew and preserve it against challenges from non-Western societies.
Samuel P. Huntington
#45. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
Samuel Johnson
#46. By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.
Samuel Richardson
#49. 22And Samuel said, w Has the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, x to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
Anonymous
#52. Everyone brings their own particular skill set to the job, and acting training can work for a lot of actors, and it can't. I've seen a lot of really good actors go into acting schools and then come out a little bit corrupted.
Xavier Samuel
#53. By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.
Samuel Johnson
#54. Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.
Samuel Beckett
#55. A man has integrity if his interest in the good of the service is at all times greater than his personal pride, and when he holds himself to the same line of duty when unobserved as he would follow if his superiors were present
Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
#56. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#57. He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.
Samuel Foote
#58. I want to read about a character doing something fairly quiet where I can picture who the character is, and what their attitude towards the world is - which I'm a lot more interested in than what they do under the pressure of a gunfight.
Samuel R. Delany
#59. Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#60. It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
#61. If Christ is the head of the church and we are the body, lets be disciples who master the noise.
Eric Samuel Timm
#62. He who makes a beast out of himself removes himself from the pain of being human
Samuel Johnson
#63. To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler
#64. All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes.
Samuel R. Delany
#65. Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence behind him, the new generations have all to learn. There may possibly be books without a polished language, but there can be no polished language without books.
Samuel Johnson
#67. If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
Samuel Butler
#68. I want to commend the [Federalist] Society for bringing together the best minds from right, left, and center to debate the most pressing legal issues of the day.
Samuel Alito
#69. I call you domina because that's what you are," Samuel insisted.
"It's what I was. Now I'm just Brie. What if I only called you pathfinder?
Kenya Wright
#70. Samuel Eto'o is reputedly the highest-paid player in the world at £350,000 per week - that's £5,000 a day
Clive Tyldesley
#71. When writing a book what is more important? Grammar and spelling or telling a great story? I know which I would choose.
Samuel Colbran
#72. A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,
skip.
Samuel Rogers
