…maybe the whole Internet will simply become like Facebook: falsely jolly, fake-friendly, self-promoting, slickly disingenuous….” - Zadie Smith — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
The closed circle of materialism is clear to us now - aspirations become wants, wants become needs, and self-gratification becomes a bottomless… — Mario Cuomo Copy Share Image
I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Emotions are there to enjoy life; but they are not used in self-reflection because they inhibit a proper reflection. They gunk us… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Being in charge of your work life doesn't mean you always move with assurance and sublime self-confidence; it means you keep moving,… — Charlotte Beers Copy Share Image
Suppose you have a parallel self who has made different choices, who is following a different event track since you made certain… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
At last He is healed of his self-doubt. Now what is happening ? He is awakening To his souls ecstasy-sun. — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are. — Penelope Trunk Copy Share Image
I want to quit. Not performing, but being a woman altogether. I want to throw my hands in the air, after reading… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
Saddest of all are the women who were brought up to believe that self-sacrifice is the highest female virtue. They made the… — Jeanette Copy Share Image
My life's been too much of a self-created vocation. And there are times when I think I've done everything in the name… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I went to West Texas and started writing a cycle of Americana poems after the space conjured images that, as a child,… — Nathalie Handal Copy Share Image
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening — Joan Armatrading Copy Share Image
I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
You've never had a hamburger before?" asks Christine, her eyes wide. "No," I say. "Is that what it's called?" "Stiffs eat plain… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
I just want to hear the true voices of women self-expressing - smart ones, stupid ones, ugly ones, beautiful ones, good ones,… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the… — Mary Pipher Copy Share Image
“The only thing I feel to be really mine is a huge incapacity, a vast emptiness, an incompetence for everything that is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
Courage is a self-inflicted quality that gains momentum every time you try it. — Jeffrey Gitomer Copy Share Image
Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both. — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
A labor of love is exalted because it provides joy and self-expression to those who perform it. — Dennis Kimbro Copy Share Image
Sincerity does not only complete the self; it is the means by which all things are completed. As the self is completed,… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing… — Daniel Bell Copy Share Image
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Liberation is not possible even after a million lifetimes. Your work [of liberation] is getting done only because you have met a… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Don’t be afraid of being unique. It’s like being afraid of your best self. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image