Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 3841 till 3860 of 4570.

  • George Eliot To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Jim Crace To ask a novelist to talk about his novels is like asking somebody to cook about their dancing.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Naomi Wolf To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.
    Naomi Wolf
    American author, journalist, feminist, and former political advisor (1962 - )
    - +
     0
  • Abu Sa'id To be a Sufi is to cease from taking trouble; and there is no greater trouble for thee than thine own self, for when thou art occupied with thyself, thou remainest away from God.
    Abu Sa'id
     
    - +
     0
  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Edward Jerningham To be happy you must be your own sunshine.
    Source: The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
    - +
     0
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Natalie Clifford Barney To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Franklin To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previously unsusceptible.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Cary Fowler To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors.
    Cary Fowler
    American agriculturalist and businessman (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men - that is genius.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Henry James To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Jami To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
    Jami
    Arabic Sufi poet, scholar and writer
    - +
     0
  • Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
    - +
     0
  • William Congreve To find a young fellow that is neither a wit in his own eye, nor a fool in the eye of the world, is a very hard task.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Tucker To force a man to pay for the violation of his own liberty is indeed an addition of insult to injury.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Baden-Powell To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.
    Robert Baden-Powell
    British Army officer, writer, author and founder of the Scout Movement (1857 - 1941)
    - +
     0
All up-their-own-butt famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 193)