A Quote by Samuel Johnson

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

Samuel Johnson

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Fellow Idea Me Possess Seems Wrong

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

Steve Vai

I feel uncomfortable about the word hero because it seems to me that it is so rhetorically proximate to justifications for more war. Um, and, I don't want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that's fallen, and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism, you know, hail of gunfire, rescuing fellow soldiers and things like that. But it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic. But maybe I'm wrong about that.

Chris Hayes

It seems almost incredible that the advocates of liberty should conceive of the idea of selling a fellow creature to slavery.

James Forten

The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Pliny the Elder

Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.

Robert Graves

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is not wrong to strive to be better than a fellow human being. Nor is it wrong to desire to be better or even to feel like oneself is better than a fellow human being. What is wrong is to gloat in one's own virtue. Therefore, gloating in one's own virtue is not virtuous.

Christopher Jones

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Gustave Flaubert

I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.

Ashly Lorenzana

Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.

W. G. Sebald

I was born with the wrong sign In the wrong house With the wrong ascendancy I took the wrong road That led to The wrong tendencies I was in the wrong place At the wrong time For the wrong reason And the wrong rhyme On the wrong day Of the wrong week Used the wrong method With the wrong technique Wrong Wrong.

Martin Gore

It is always unconscionable for the government to punish people for expressing an idea merely because government officials - or the majority of citizens - decide that those ideas are 'dangerous' or 'wrong.' That is a power nobody ought to possess.

Glenn Greenwald

What is often being argued, it seems to me, in the idea of nature is the idea of man; and this not only generally, or in ultimate ways, but the idea of man in society, indeed the ideas of kinds of societies.

Raymond Williams

The basic idea that marketing is wrong at its core is one of the main reasons why innovation seems blocked and unpredictable.

Clayton M. Christensen

It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.