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self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
employment
The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. Jane Austen
employment good improving pointing seeing series solid
We are seeing a series of good indicators pointing to solid recovery: improving production, improving exports, improving employment and improving spending. Masaaki Kanno
employment lands supply
When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-year supply of employment lands,
employment occupation principles
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. David Hume
employment discrimination should
Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment. Bob Black
employment goes health insurance lose portable work
We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable. Ted Cruz
employment economics achieve
We cannot hope to achieve full employment and sustain it until we have mastered inflation. Denis Healey
employment hired hopeful language lawyers model others
We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.
employment framework hold party plenty policy power prosperity whatever
We need a policy framework which will hold whatever party is in power so there will be peace, prosperity and plenty of employment opportunities,
examination worthless
A happiness that won't stand up to examination is less than worthless. Drea De Matteo
examination dignity instinct
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. C. S. Lewis
examination doe originality
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Edward Carpenter
examination fiction freak
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. Flannery O'Connor
examination individual life-altering
In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them. Gregory Maguire
examination ability
Ability is not always gauged by examination. Indira Gandhi
examination fraud dread
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Samuel Johnson
examination experiments died
To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of. Ronald Fisher