Quotes 261 till 280 of 937.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
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I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.
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I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
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I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own; I would be rich of myself and not by borrowing.
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!
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I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. Well, I don't understand how you can go so long without a cigarette, she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America (2001) Ch. 1: Serving in Florida (p. 31) -
I did know Ted Hughes and I partly wrote the book to explain to myself and others the complexities of a marriage that was for six years wonderfully productive of poetry and then ended in tragedy.
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I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.
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I give myself the kindness and forgiveness I would show others.
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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
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I have often wondered how it is everyone loves himself more than the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than the opinions of others.
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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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I judge the relative strength of a man by how envious they become, of others, who enjoy a measure of success.
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I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.
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I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your soul as through a sieve. And when our suffering has been dragged from one pity to another, as from one mouth to another, we can no longer respect or love it.
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I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
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