When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if… — Elmer Rice Copy Share Image
By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but… — William Osler Copy Share Image
Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
My favourite writer is Beckett and I keep going back to wallow in his work like a deep pool of dark humour… — Simon Critchley Copy Share Image
Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Should thoughts of self-praise, of self-satisfaction, occur to you, say: 'I myself am nothing; all that is good in me is accomplished… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
We obey people we don't trust, to buy things we don't need, to impress people we don't like, using money we don't… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
Be original, be yourself. In trying to become like someone else, we are compromising our own self being. If we are not… — Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
“The journey to the realisation of your dreams is difficult; you will have to climb the mountains of despair, brave the storms… — Rassool Jibraeerl Snyman Copy Share Image
So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith… — William Barclay Copy Share Image
I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed… — Meg Greenfield Copy Share Image
When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sympathy is in great degree a result of the mood we are in at the moment; anger forbids the emotion. On the… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
