As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
There were days I could barely struggle into a size 46 or 48, months of larges and XXLs, and endless rounds of… — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
... How is it [, then] that the leaders of our society have seen fit to try to eliminate this one very… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No,… — Fleur Adcock Copy Share Image
The most stupendous system of organized robbery known has been that of the church towards woman, a robbery that has not only… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
To eat in a monastery refectory is an exercise in humility; daily, one is reminded to put communal necessity before individual preference.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
A general loftiness of sentiment, independence of men, consciousness of good intentions, self-oblivion in great objects, clear views of futurity; thoughts of… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, "Even if you are not ready for day it… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
By what you decide to put on your body, for example, you're already making a personal judgement. That's an incredible thing that… — Morgan Spurlock Copy Share Image
Realisation of love can never come so long as there is the least desire in the heart, or what Shri Ramakrishna used… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Self-consciousness, however, does hinder the experience of the present. It is the one instrument that unplugs all the rest. So long as… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
My philosophy of life is that the meek shall inherit nothing but debasement, frustration and ignoble deaths; that there is security in… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
When you are dealing with a serious compulsion or addictive pattern, then by definition self-will, self-discipline, and any other machinations of the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
Acquisition of [higher] knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists of the attainment, thanks to… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“What could be more absurd? Yet it is nature's folly, not ours. When she set about her chief masterpiece, the making of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
If one denies that, when the meaning is true, then the meant is what is so, one rejects propositional truth. If the… — Bernard Lonergan Copy Share Image
Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware...So, when we wholly concentrate, like a child in play, or an artist at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Convictions that outcomes are determined by one's own actions can be either demoralizing or heartening, depending on the level of self-judged efficacy.… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
It may not be nice to be good, little 6655321. It may be horrible to be good. And when I say that… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Ressentiment is a self-poisoning of the mind which has quite definite causes and consequences. It is a lasting mental attitude, caused by… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys… — Anne Enright Copy Share Image
The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence, but in a certain sense… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image