I love standup, but it's self-indulgence. Me saying what I think and thinking people should listen to it. — Tom Rosenthal Copy Share Image
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene. — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I have visited a number of boutique hotels where you feel there is a little bit of self-indulgence going on. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around. — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
When you're walking in, basically like a kid a candy store, to a project where there's an endless canon of material, you… — Josh Groban Copy Share Image
“Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there’s no use in trying.”… — Greg Keyes Copy Share Image
“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
I realize that nobody listens anymore, too much self indulgence that only leaves room for simple mistakes and major misunderstandings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us… — Theodore L. Cuyler Copy Share Image
“What is a scumbag? In simple words, the item in question is an inexpensive device that facilitates individual pleasure and self indulgence… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to… — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
... the reason why there are so few first-class poets is that many people have intense feelings or first-class minds but to… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
America is ensnared in self-indulgence and its future hangs in the balance. Our moral and spiritual foundations are rapidly being destroyed. Our… — John Hagee Copy Share Image
We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence is something to watch, but anything that helps you understand situations that are difficult to understand is good. If you're having… — Lulu 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
“They're trying to breed a nation of techno-peasants. Educated just enough to keep things going, but not enough to ask tough questions.… — Michael Flynn Copy Share Image
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Sula was distinctly different. Eva’s arrogance and Hannah’s self-indulgence merged in her and, with a twist that was all her own imagination,… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Liberty without discipline cannot survive. Without order and authority in the spirit of man the free way of life leads through weakness,… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record. — Larry Mullen, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence . — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
One has to differentiate between priorities and self-indulgence. What you have today may disappear tomorrow. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[H]e who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self indulgence from which he is sure to reap… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
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