Samy Quotes

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to ignore the facts than to change the preconceptions. - Jessamyn West

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? - Jessamyn West

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other. - Jessamyn West

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. - Jessamyn West

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness. - Jessamyn West

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow. - Jessamyn West

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate. - Jessamyn West

The play was set up because we didn't win a battle along the boards. Then, Samy tried to get (Wrigley) down low and let him go to the front where Terry could poke the puck away. Samy made his move too early and gave (Wrigley) too much room to work. - Brian Curran

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. - Jessamyn West