My art gives contemporary art a juvenile-delinquent phase. Its self-made style gleefully trashes conventions of beauty and society while pick-pocketing from the… — Steve Olson Copy Share Image
American companies spend more than $200 billion each year hacking women's bodies into bits and pieces, urging comparisons between self and other,… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The real menace of our Republic is the invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy legs over our cities,… — John Francis Hylan Copy Share Image
“The mind, intellect and chit are all carrying out their own functions. It is our interference in that. 'Our' does not mean… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
One of the things I love so much about Valerie [Belin] is that she inhabits her body so completely. She has no… — Nan Goldin Copy Share Image
You exist someplace else, and when you can contact yourself in that other place, when you can open up a kind of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self.… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion,… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I was a small business owner, father, and husband just living out in the suburbs. I kind of had a boring life… — Frank Warren Copy Share Image
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have… — Galen Strawson Copy Share Image
Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me… Now,the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Education makes life self-reliant. It inspires man to live with dignity in the society. It is the foremost requisite of a teacher… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
As with many metaphysical and religious questions, Kant thinks they lie beyond our power to answer them. If you can't stand the… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I complacently accepted the social order in which I was brought up. I probably would have continued in my complacency if the… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
She did not need to fold into herself and self-destruct. Those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we… — John Green Copy Share Image
The only way someone can be of help to you is in challenging your ideas. If you're ready to listen and if… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of… — Asaram Copy Share Image
When you're a self-made man you start very early in life. In my case it was at nine years old when I… — Kirk Kerkorian Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
No one in al-Nahda believes that jihad is a way to impose Islam on the world. But we believe that jihad is… — Rashid al-Ghannushi Copy Share Image
Did either the nonexistent or the measured response after a series of attacks on Americans the past decade - in Lebanon, Africa,… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in… — Tarthang Tulku Copy Share Image
“ My Name Once when the lawn was a golden green and the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials in the… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
What I saw wasn't a ghost. It was simply--myself. I can never forget how terrified I was that night, and whenever I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Paul Keating told us before we were elected that you can do deals with [Rupert] Murdoch without saying you were doing a… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
The question "Is this an act of self-love or is it an act of self-sabotage?" is one you must consistently ask yourself… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Our grandfathers lived in a world of largely self-sufficient, inward-looking national economies - but our great-great grandfathers lived, as we do, in… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image