Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Carlos Castaneda

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

Agnes Martin

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Alan Sugar

Love what you do and do what you love, otherwise you will become unhappy and self-defeating.

Alan Keyes

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

Alan Keyes

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

Charlotte Bronte

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.

Charlotte Bronte

I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.

Charlotte Bronte

I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.

Bram Cohen

I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right.

Elie Wiesel

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Edward Rutherfurd

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature.

Arthur Boyd

They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant.

Bruce Sterling

Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.

Blaise Pascal

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Jamie Morris

We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much.

Matt McGorry

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Mike Ramsey

I am arrogant enough to believe that if I can talk to a juror, I have a pretty good chance of finding out whether they have an agenda.

Douglas Coupland

I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'

Gretchen Rubin

If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line at the drugstore, you're doing 'Waiting in line meditation.' Just saying these words makes me feel very spiritual and high-minded and wise.

Eric Shinseki

No veteran should have to wait for claims. If there's anybody impatient here, I am that individual.

Jim Padilla

I get impatient too but I also don't walk on water.

Italian Proverb

He who is not impatient is not in love

Trevor Noah

I've never been afraid to fall in love, nor impatient to find it.

William Wordsworth

Surprised by joy -- impatient as the windI wished to share the transport.

C. S. Lewis

One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.

David Coverdale

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.