Self Quotes
14166 Self quotes by unique 6037 authors
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The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.
— Dennis Kucinich
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Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity…
— Christina Applegate
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On the Left, on the Right, in the Middle; Authors, statesmen, thieves; so-called humanists and self-declared fascists; the adventurous and the contemplative, in every realm…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman, as a respecter…
— Wyndham Lewis
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My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.
— Olivia Newton-John
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It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some…
— Audrey Hepburn
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Good government is no substitute for self-government.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the…
— Barack Obama
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
— Ella Maillart
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another.…
— Cleveland Amory
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Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.
— Unknown Author
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No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly; and this self-deceit is yet stronger with respect to the offspring of the mind.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
— Joel Chandler Harris
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
— George Orwell
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Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater…
— Dick Francis
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Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be…
— David Brin
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The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.
— Erno Paasilinna
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Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.
— Richard Peck
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. wThis is the first step towards becoming either estimable…
— William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
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