I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say. — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
None of our hearts are pure, we always have mixed motives. Are self deceivers, but the worst of all Deceits is to… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
Humanity had to inflict terrible injuries on itself before the self, the identical, purpose-directed, masculine character of human beings was created, and… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing… — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent. — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
Allowing myself to love God completely has obviously shed light on my self-love because he loves me more than I could ever… — Angie Stone Copy Share Image
Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense. — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
There is not enough self-consciousness about what a family can be, about what it can inherit from forbearers, and what new traditions… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
I don't know what to say about Asians. I think everyone is "racist," to differing degrees, in that everyone's brain will automatically… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy… — Savielly Tartakower Copy Share Image
Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the… — Gabrielle Burton Copy Share Image
There is a time in our life when we need to strut our stuff and groove on grandiosity, when we need to… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I didn't dare to think of anything then except the "facts." To get beneath the facts I would have had to be… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The untalented are more at ease in a society that gives them valid alibis for not achieving than in one where opportunities… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
There is "no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality--and none of these great… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes quitting is exactly the right thing to do. Quitting something that's not working requires self-awareness and courage. — Glennon Melton Copy Share Image
Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
The emptiness of play is when there is no self present. There is no one playing - there is only play itself… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Truly, the greatest power you have in this world is the power of your own self-transformation. It starts with the one in… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered… — Nick Flynn Copy Share Image
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - is revising parts… — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know… — Christopher Guest Copy Share Image
Love is accepting your truest, most authentic expression of self, and allowing yourself to do the same with others. — Grace Gealey Copy Share Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
The ego is a very bad quality. Ego sees everything as separate; it sees everything as dual. You must remove this ego… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the… — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
That to this mountain-daisy's self were known The beauty of its star-shaped shadow, thrown On the smooth surface of this naked stone! — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first—wanting to be the centre—wanting to be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Objectivity, in other words, is the absence of the self. Our desire to be right, as ego-driven as it often seems, is… — Kathryn Schulz Copy Share Image
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I can never tell what I'm doing when I'm in the middle of publication because I have no confidence. I have terrible… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
