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self-love looks tough
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there. Alexandra Fuller
self time time-and-time-management
Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide. Edward Halifax
self truly
One who contemplates his own self is truly wise.
self-esteem personality fame
Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. Chris Evert
selfish tunnels tennis
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
self work-out feel-good
I'm a big fan of working out on my own. I put my headphones on and I'm pretty good at self-motivating. At the end of the day, I enjoy it. Once I'm there and once I get going, I tend to love it, and I feel good. Chris Evans
self-confidence thinking armor
Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence . Charles Spurgeon
self christ ends
When we come to the end of self we come to the beginning of Christ.
self comfort sin
To rejoice in temporal comforts is dangerous, to rejoice in self is foolish, to rejoice in sin is fatal, but to rejoice in God is heavenly.
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 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 ability
Ability is not always gauged by examination. Indira Gandhi
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 doe originality
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. Edward Carpenter
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
examination fraud dread
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it. Samuel Johnson
fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd