Will Sampson Quotes

#1. Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#2. Whether or not it is ultimately the best of all conceivable scripts for Korean, Hangeul must unquestionably rank as one of the great intellectual achievements of humankind.

Geoffrey Sampson

#3. Eve was not a born know-all. She was ignorant. But she was a good learner.

Geoffrey Sampson

#4. Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

Anthony Sampson

#5. I became an actor in that important drama with an inflexible resolution to persevere through the last scene, when we might be permitted and acknowledged to enjoy what we had so nobly declared we would possess, or lose with our lives - Freedom and Independence!

Deborah Sampson

#6. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

Deborah Sampson

#7. The red carpet stuff is brilliant because it's so fun. In terms of exposure, I think it's something that you can never get used to because you don't know what you're being exposed to at all times. You just don't know what to expect.

George Sampson

#8. The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn.

George Sampson

#9. Beginnings are easier to find in hindsight

Natalie Corbett Sampson

#10. I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Deborah Sampson

#11. Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson

James Patterson

#12. Children can now recognize greater than a thousand corporate logos, but fewer than ten plants native to their region. The

Scott D. Sampson

#13. AGONISTES (AGONI'STES) n.s.[ Gr.]A prize-fighter; one that contends at any public solemnity for a prize. Milton has so stiled his tragedy, because Sampson was called out to divert the Philistines with feats of strength.

Samuel Johnson

#14. I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.

Shelley Duvall

#15. So, yeah, I have to admit, I had my doubts. But they were without merit. Yet, I waited for the judgment strike of the clock to hit. For Mom to find out Sampson's secret.... -Abrielle, from Made for Me

Pamela Schloesser Canepa

#16. If we cannot be contented with our current lives and possessions, then we are feeding an appetite that no amount of money will ever satiate.

Breanna Sampson

#17. Spread sunshine and inspiration.

Juliet M. Sampson

#18. On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

#19. It has been the bankers' destiny ... to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

Anthony Sampson

#20. Mr. Sampson, you forget the difference between Plato and Zenocrates.

Walter Scott

#21. What shall I say further? Shall I not stop short and leave to your imaginations to portray the tragic deeds of war? Is it not enough that I here leave it even to unexperience to fancy the hardships, the anxieties, the dangers, even of the best life of a soldier?

Deborah Sampson

#22. sometimes people are drawn together for a purpose that even they dont recognize at the time.

Sampson Davis

#23. She looked over the colored boxes of smiling women holding plastic sticks. Why isn't there a box showing a terrified teen?

Natalie Corbett Sampson

#24. I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.

Deborah Sampson

#25. Sadie poured two cups of tea, dark and strong, the kind of tea that needed milk to take the edge off the tannin and then sugar to penetrate the fat of the milk.

Carl Sampson

#26. Our offensive philosophy is to simply find a way to get the ball into the hands of our team's best player.

Kelvin Sampson

#27. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward

Patricia Sampson

#28. Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!

Deborah Sampson

#29. The jawbone of an ass is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Sampson's time.

Richard M. Nixon

#30. He hadn't even come to the Teddy Roosevelt School with Sampson.

James Patterson

#31. ABRAHAM: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?
SAMPSON [Aside to Gregory]: Is the law of our side, if I say ay?
GREGORY [Aside to Sampson]: No.
SAMPSON: No, sir, I do not bite my thumb at you, sir, but I bite my thumb, sir.

William Shakespeare

#32. I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do.

Jennifer Priester

#33. I take it to be from the greatest extremes, both in virtue and in vice, that the uniformly virtuous and reformed in life can derive the greatest and most salutary truths and impressions.

Deborah Sampson

#34. Unfortunately for Sampson, the naked mole rat was in heat at the moment.

Vernon D. Burns