Man Self Quote by Lois McMaster Bujold

Failure is not the end of the road, but only a temporary light-off, only a bend to your destiny.

— Prodigy

Women are always self-effacing and self-denying. There's a term that enrages me, and I always used to swear that I'd never play characters described…

— Helen Mirren

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the…

— Ben Folds

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

— Jerry Leiber

You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I'm also really embarrassed…

— Lesley Sharp

You should never try irony or self-effacing humour.

— Tim Robbins

My favorite comedy is self-effacing, where the person doing the joke is the butt of it. That's always been the stuff I've gravitated toward.…

— Andy Samberg

“... Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.”

— Agatha Christie

“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for…

— Neel Burton

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Precisely this vanity of vanities which is the mans dream, the Illusion of his Life is the one that finally gives the man the…

— Sorin Cerin