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.

Jane Austen

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?

William Shakespeare

What is more miserable than discontent?

Ben Okri

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.

Benny Hill

Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?

Edward Abbey

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

Robert Holden

Many people are out without shelter. It was miserable to start with but with this things are only going to get worse.

Billy Collins

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

Russ Moore

We're going to McDonald's. We had a miserable day.

Tomas Transtromer

Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.

David Shapiro

Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

Evelyn Keyes

To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded attention to your career. Nobody paid attention to me, including me.

Lori Wilde

My husband is the romantic one in our relationship. He's always doing sweet things for me. Each year, we recreate our first date - it was a blind date, and we met at the zoo, followed by a trip to the museum. I'd have to say that's my favorite romantic date.

Alan Watts

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

Chester Bennington

When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.

Lucas Till

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

Walter Dean

The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?'

Lesli Linka Glatter

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.