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Others Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.
- Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their…
- I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet…
- All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel. All of them? Sure, he says. Think about it. There's…
- You refuse to own yourself, you permit others to do it for you
- But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but…
- His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.
- I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more…
- The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful…
- We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.
- My own view of myself was that I was small and innocuous, a marshmallow compared to the others. I was a poor shot with a…
- A prison does not only lock its inmates inside, it keeps all others out. Her strongest prison is of her own construction.
- Even an obvious fabrication is some comfort when you have few others.
- The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even upstanding…
- Tell what is yours to tell. Let others tell what is theirs.
More Others Quotes
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some… — Arthur Ashe
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears… — Marcus Aurelius
- Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride… — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen