Top 87 Quotes About Samson
#1. Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
John Bunyan
#2. Vasilli had often wondered if the secret of Ladislav's power was, like Samson, held within his hair. And what would happen if he shaved it off.
Amy Kuivalainen
#3. As Samson demonstrated, going bald ruins lives.
Brendan Jack
#4. I remember that story. You have read it four times." Samson shrugged. "Why should I stop with the first reading? Nobody says, 'That was a fine piece of music. I'll never listen to that again." But some people treat books that way. Not I!
Karen A. Wyle
#5. It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman's look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson's chest in his sleep.
Herman Melville
#6. Every hero is a Samson. The strong man succumbs to the intrigues of the weak and the many; and if in the end he loses all patience he crushes both them and himself.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#7. A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.
Helen Rowland
#9. Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#10. Did you ever think, Clarice, why the Philistines don't understand you? It's because you are the answer to Samson's riddle. You are the honey in the lion.
Thomas Harris
#11. Even Samson, the world's strongest man, was destroyed by the woman who slept in his arms. she was the one whose words hurt him.
Malcolm X
#12. As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest.
Tahir Shah
#13. An affection which is not inspired by the Lord will soon be transformed into lust. Samson is not alone in the history of man in failing in this regard. Delilah is still cutting the hair of man today!
Watchman Nee
#14. Samson's tapping feet come closer, but again he pauses and knocks on a door. I don't mind. The pauses make it better. They make me wonder whether he's going to come to me, like the anticipation before a kiss. Will he or won't he?
But this is not a love story.
Eliza Crewe
#15. Then Samson said. With a donkeys jawbone I have made donkeys of them. With a donkey's jawbone I have killed a thousand of them.
Anonymous
#16. Britain isn't a world power any more. Its just like a zombie in that regard; it doesn't know when it's dead - Samson from No Boundaries.
Paul Xavier Jones
#17. Petey Samson gave the ladies an over-the-shoulder glance. He realized no doggie treat was forthcoming, even from Isabel who was usually the soft mark to hit up. He scratched his front claws to re-attack the sand.
Ed Lynskey
#18. I wished i were seven feet tall. I'd hop up there and attack ol' Samson while the crowd went wild. I'd whip him good, send him flying, and become the biggest hero in Black Oak. But, for now, I could only boo him.
John Grisham
#19. Fishes love water,but not hot water.
Men love women,who love Delilah(Samson&Delilah)?
Peter Irabor
#20. Always remember: Power in the wrong hands can destroy the owner. The same power that gave victory to Samson is what destroyed him.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#21. The greatest enemy of mankind is his ignorance of the inherent money power in all of us. When the realization of this comes to man, he will like Samson, push down the walls of his prison.
E.C. Riegel
#22. It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#23. It is to be feared that many believers lose their strength as Samson lost his locks, while sleeping on the lap of carnal security.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#25. So unless you're stronger than Samson and smarter than Solomon, don't violate your relationship with God by pursuing romantic relations with non-Christians. Love for Jesus must come ahead of all lesser loves.
David Feddes
#26. Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets. All these also did not receive what was promised but greeted it from afar, and then there are all those who did not much believe in the promise to begin with, and it is not always possible to tell the two apart.
Frederick Buechner
#27. When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.
Cyndi Lauper
#28. Life's a video game stuck on hardest, no way to save, and no extra lives. Worst part? No manual either. - Marlon Samson
Ashleigh D.J. Cutler
#29. Oh yes, I want to play with 'Samson'. Come to Delilah.
Sunny
#30. Seduced, shaggy Samson snored. She scissored short. Sorely shorn, Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed, Silently scheming, Sightlessly seeking Some savage, spectacular suicide.
Stanislaw Lem
#31. John K. Samson is fluent in the inexpressible. Find him on the page or find him in the ether-just find him
Alissa York
#32. Come up here if you have a vision or if you are in trouble." Pokey grabbed a bag from the floor of the truck and handed it to Samson through the window. "There's a blanket in there and some mint
Christopher Moore
#33. Donald Trump is acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the den of iniquity crashing down on its patrons.
Ilana Mercer
#34. Any time I've taken the mound, it's always been the old Samson-and-Goliath story written about me.
Randy Johnson
#35. Somewhere in the far north of Canada there wuld be snow, falling soundlessly overy the Beaufort Sea, falling over the Artic without a soul to see it. What kind of weather was that, Samson wondered, and how was one to use this information except as proof that the world was too much to bear?
Nicole Krauss
#37. There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.
Flora Thompson
#38. There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever
the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#39. Samson becomes a great and terrible warrior when, and only when, the Spirit of God comes upon him. The rest of the time he's just short of an idiot. What does this story tell us about the God whose Spirit this is?
John Eldredge
#40. Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson.
Anna Sewell
#41. Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you.
Already, I can see my epitaph. Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.
Manil Suri
#42. Open, he urged her in a soft voice.
Samson to Delilah
Tina Folsom
#43. I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love Lucky Charms and Cocoa Pebbles cereal. I love my purple couch, and I love dancing. I used to have the best stuffed animals, but Samson [her dog] ate them.
Alicia Silverstone
#44. Take care, Sancho," said Samson; "honours change manners, and perhaps when you find yourself a governor you won't know the mother that bore you.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#45. Samson told Delilah loud and clear, keep your cotton picken fingers out of my hair.
Elvis Presley
#47. His blood simmered. She wasn't Miss Banks, she was Lady Benedict. And what did Samson mean she didn't wish to speak to him? Had she said that herself or had Lord Watson decided it for
Rose Gordon
#48. My breath caught in wonder and surprise and I remembered that during the darkest of hours, God is.
Lisa Samson
#49. Oh what force on earth could be weaker than the feeble strength of one" like me remembering the way it could have been. Help me with this barricade. No surrender. No defeat. A spectre's haunting Albert Street. I am your pamphleteer.
John K. Samson
#50. How lovely they were, those long summer nights: the words and the silences, the sunsets and the stars.
Polly Samson
#51. Every breath drawn by an individual who truly serves God will elicit a responsive chord from the universe around him.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#52. Man, I wish God wasn't starting to shake us up like this. Wouldn't it just be easier to care about stuff like dinnerware, golf, school uniforms, and getting to that new resturant that just opened?
Lisa Samson
#53. If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as much as those who have none to give.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#54. I've never heard anyone come back from downtown Baltimore waxing poetic about the authenticity of poverty.
Lisa Samson
#55. However important it is that love shall precede marriage, it is far more important that it shall continue after marriage.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#57. From two niches (to use Barber's word), North and South, we've splintered into hundreds of thousands, a nation of tribes connected not by kinship or even creed. We're merely tethered together by the Internet, by our brand loyalties and shared consumer obsessions.
Lisa Samson
#58. If I was an eccentric old spinster in a Merchant Ivory movie, I'd want to share my lovely cottage with Holly and that's the truth. I'd do the cooking and leave the decorating to her, and we'd be inseparable.
Lisa Samson
#59. A humming sound alerted him to a message on his cell phone. He looked at it.
'She said yes'.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Tina Folsom
#61. It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#62. Although I doubt He [Jesus] said "believeth" as He was Jewish and not a fancy-pants English fellow.
Lisa Samson
#63. Jesus was always at the wheel, but he's not particularly cautious. In fact, he takes hairpin turns at seventy miles per hour if you want to know the truth of it. But as he is God, I've always figured he knows how to drive better than I do.
Lisa Samson
#64. Offer someone £50 for telling you what Mashik of 45 is, and he will ask "what is Mashik?". Then offer him £100 to tell you what tangent of 45 is, and he will turn down the challenge. He will not even ask what tangent is, because clearly it sounds like maths, and we don't mess with maths...
Ilan Samson
#65. I guess this thing we call faith is a climb. I always wanted to think of it as a big slide straight into the arms of God who waits at the bottom to catch us. But instead, He's a God who's on top of things - & like any mountain you climb, the closer we get to Him, the steeper the terrain.
Lisa Samson
#66. Personally, I'd prefer trouble - you learn more. ... Well, we'll see.
Samson Raphaelson
#67. Laying a good foundation in all you do secures the future because when the storm comes it will definitely trouble you but you won't fall.
Regards
Esther
Esther Samson
#68. I just don't see the point of not eating cheese. I mean, if God didn't want us to eat cheese, would he have let man invent it?
Lisa Samson
#69. Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful.
Polly Samson
#70. You should never use propaganda to teach kids the truth.
Lisa Samson
#71. Life took you right to the edge of where you wanted to go, then turned left.
Lisa Samson
#72. Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest animals as beings which, like people, have been summoned to the joy of life ...
Samson Raphael Hirsch
#73. Divine election is a theme mentioned often in sacred Scripture. God has chosen to reveal this truth for the spiritual nurture and growth of the people of God.
John Samson
#74. What are we doing? Have we really drifted so far off course? We have it all, don't we? We get along, live comfortably. But what's it all really for in the long run?
Lisa Samson
#75. Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, This is great!
Lisa Samson
#76. It is better to be rich, happy and healthy, rather than poor, miserable and sick!
Samson Soledad
#77. Great Drew, you're sitting here about to beg Daisy's forgiveness & you wont even give your own father the time of day. Mother Teresa once said, "You only love Christ as much as the person you love the least." Sometimes I can't stand that woman.
Lisa Samson
#78. But the true miracle of the resurrection wasn't so much the raising. Is something like that too hard for the God who made the universe? The true miracle is in the forgiving. And though we are bruised and burned, blind and broken, we are forgiven.
Lisa Samson
#80. I realize we can destroy ourselves in ways so deep we'll never return to the place we were before we started the destruction - Valentine
Lisa Samson
#81. Movie Jesus is a whole lot different from Bible Jesus
Lisa Samson
#82. God wasn't giving me a megaphone. He was telling me to shut up. To be still and know.
Lisa Samson
#84. May I have another one? Her voice was smooth, silky, tempting.
Did she know this was foreplay?
Tina Folsom
#85. There's enough grief in this world without always getting into whose fault it is.
Lisa Samson
#86. There's enough ugliness in the world without having to feel guilty about the beauty.
Lisa Samson
#87. Jesus, do you always show up like this, at the craziest of times and in the oddest of places? I sure hope so.
Lisa Samson
