Quotes with self-destroying

Quotes 461 till 480 of 704.

  • Barbara Ehrenreich Surely there must be some way to find a husband or, for that matter, merely an escort, without sacrificing one's privacy, self-respect, and interior decorating scheme. For example, men could be imported from the developing countries, many parts of which are suffering from a man excess, at least in relation to local food supply.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • Jean Anouilh Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? - a hoax fabricated by poets for their self-importance.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Tears are the symbol of the inability of the soul to restrain its emotion and retain its self command.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Billy Graham Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Bhagavad Gita That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Maxwell Maltz The ''self-image'' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • C. Wright Mills The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Archibald Macleish The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Ben Elton The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
    Stark Court, Hippies and Love at First Sight
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Marcel Proust The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • Beck The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males and all male bonding is based on it.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Aldous Huxley The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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