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 Stoker

Despair has its own calms.

Jamie Lee Curtis

I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

Alan Moore

Never despair. Never surrender.

Chinua Achebe

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

Charles Baudelaire

Il faut travailler sinon par go u" t, au moins par de sespoir, puisque, tout bien ve rifie , travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser. We should work: if not by preference, at least out of despair. All things considered, work is less boring than amusement.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Woody Allen

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

Edmund Burke

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

Todd Galloway

We have to get over what happened and understand that we have something to play for. We just have to forget about it.

Charlotte Bronte

Friends always forget those whom fortune forsakes.

Tove Jansson

All men are chums who will never leave each other in the lurch. A chum doesn't forgive, he just forgets - women forgive everything but never forget. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.

David Morrissey

I like to act because I can forget about everything else.

Dave Barry

We don't shoot somebody soon, I'm gonna forget how

Buddy Guy

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Cesare Lombroso

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Jane Addams

We forget that the accumulation of knowledge and the holding of convictions must finally result in the application of that knowledge and those convictions to life itself.