Quotes with up-their-own-butt

Quotes 4341 till 4360 of 4570.

  • Barbara Kingsolver Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves?
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Francis Quarles Wickedness is its own punishment.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Siri Hustvedt Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder.
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Nido R. Qubein Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people
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  • Denis Waitley Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Brian Tracy Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Denis Waitley Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Bergen Evans Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
    Bergen Evans
    American professor and television host
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Aristophanes Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • William Shakespeare Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Mark Twain Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bjork With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler With all of the people in Cuba who I met - many of them hugely heroic figures - I found learning about their complexity and richness and contradictions just really fascinating, and it was fulfilling to be able to offer a different side to them, to be able to have some kind of unique takeaway from the official narrative.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Clarence Darrow With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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