Robert Samuelson Quotes

#1. God helps those who realize that they can't help themselves.

Preston Sprinkle

#2. The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

Lawren Harris

#3. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning.

Terry Pratchett

#4. Academic pedigree alone is no guarantor of useful knowledge and wisdom.

Robert Samuelson

#5. The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony.

William Shakespeare

#6. Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)

Juvenal

#7. In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

Robert J. Samuelson

#8. Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

Freeman A. Hrabowski III

#9. Clerks get into the damnedest wrangles
which is the way they help me.

William J. Brennan

#10. My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.

Laura Linney

#11. Of course not," Samuelson said. "Del Rio's got a place in Bel

Robert B. Parker

#12. Personal growth was damn hard work. It also took a lot of time, so it was going to have to take a backseat for a while.
Because right now, he had a battle to fight and Vampyre ass to kick.

Thea Harrison

#13. We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn.

Dean Koontz

#14. Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Mark Shields

#15. It was as if he were a single whole, grasped by her first glance at him, like some irreducible absolute, like an axiom not to be explained any further, as if she knew everything about him by direct perception, and what awaited her now was only the process of identifying her knowledge.

Ayn Rand

#16. I never thought I would be in a comedic role; my past is in drama.

Gillian Jacobs

#17. The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music.

Justin Timberlake

#18. Do not to let your feelings (very natural and usual ones) of momentary irritation and discomfort be seen by others don't (as you so often did and do) let every little feeling be read in your face and seen in your manner ...

Queen Victoria