Self Quotes

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If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with… — Joan Didion
When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if… — Michael Chekhov
One-dimensional thought is systematically promoted by the makers of politics and their purveyors of mass information. Their universe of discourse is populated by self-validating hypotheses… — Herbert Marcuse
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
It is characteristic of ideology to impose self-evident facts as self-evident facts, — Louis Althusser
I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music! — Homer
Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid.… — Rafael Nadal
Icebergs behoove the soul (both being self-made from elements least visible) to see themselves: fleshed, fair, erected, indivisible. — Elizabeth Bishop
What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration. — Elizabeth Bishop
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will… — John Berryman
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness. — Mike Huckabee
Liberals have created, and the minority leadership has exploited, a community of dependent people, unaware of the true route to prosperity and happiness: self-reliance and… — Rush Limbaugh
By government giveaway programs, individuals are often hurt far more than they are helped. The recipients of these programs become dependent on the government and… — Rush Limbaugh
I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer… — Thom Yorke
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of… — Thom Yorke
My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was… — Thom Yorke
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing… — Arthur Miller
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty… — Raphael
Plato spoke of the necessity for divine madness in the poet. It is a frightening thing to open oneself to this strange and dark side… — Madeleine L'Engle

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