Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Saying a womaniser loves women is like saying a fighter ace loves his kills.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman Copy Share Image
“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.” — George will Copy Share Image
Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me? — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
I'm battling with keeping my narcissism at bay as it is, so Twitter was not a good thing for that. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
“I do not walk into the storm unless I have been called into the storm. For the former is arrogance and the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Abuse is never deserved, it is an exploitation of innocence and physical disadvantage, which is perceived as an opportunity by the abuser.” — Lorraine Nilon Copy Share Image
Most of us like thinking we are God's only children...At least one of the purposes of church is to remind us that… — Barbara Brown Taylor Copy Share Image
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children's most primitive fears. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Really life is about narcissism; no one is ever thinking about you much. You always think people are thinking about you way… — Lizz Winstead Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
There's like a little bit of a narcissism - I think there's more than a little bit of narcissism about it, but… — Patti Harrison Copy Share Image
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations… — Ryszard Kapuściński Copy Share Image
Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Everyone says Oscar Wilde was a dandy, but he wasn't - he was an aesthete. He took pleasure in food and stuff… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“I had never thought much of genealogy. A lot of wasted time collecting the names of the dead. Then stringing those names,… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
I don't know why people do not read 'Mein Kampf' more regularly. It tells you first-hand about all the narcissism; you see… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's naivete or just narcissism, but I start out with this notion that I can do anything. It's… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I admire narcissism in Momus and others who "own" it and use it as a way to explore ideas/themselves and also as… — Marie Calloway Copy Share Image
We spoke of ourselves as "emancipated" when we got the vote. Yet we are still slaves to the superficial and the superfluous.… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I had written a lot about my dog dying before. I wrote a newspaper column about it and it turned out to… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
“Like all his attempts at fiction it would be as personal as a letter—painful to those who knew him, of no interest… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
“Know that...there's plenty of food and of course popcorn on the dining-room table. Just...help yourself. If that runs out just let me… — Joshua Braff Copy Share Image
I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
We have been very effectively pacified by the pernicious ideology of a consumer society that is centered on the cult of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Reason and logic are a force for unity. People can rally around the objective, absolute Truth. All of these are undermined by… — Joe Dixon Copy Share Image
