So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the… — Ossian Everett Mills 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
New pressures are causing ever more people to find their main satisfaction in their consumptive role rather than in their productive role.… — Vance Packard Copy Share Image
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes.… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“Novelty and Security: the security of novelty, the novelty of security. Always the full thing, the whole subject, the true subject, stood… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“The only excuse for self indulgence is to learn that the objects we crave are overrated and don't satisfy our hunger, which… — Henry Makow Copy Share Image
Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Self-care is not about self-indulgence , it is about self-preservati on. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
All holy piety in public, and all peeled grapes and self-indulgence in private. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.” — George Carlin Copy Share Image
What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice — Maryam Jameelah Copy Share Image
I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try… — Spencer Krug Copy Share Image
I must play my role, great or small - that is humility, without self-importance, without self-indulgence. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If your standards for dating some one was a rock band it would be an ALL TIME LOW Sorry with your Mindless… — Myself Copy Share Image
