Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Derrida

If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.

Isaac Asimov

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Poverty is not only about income levels, but for lack of freedom that comes from physical insecurity

Christopher Hitchens

Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

Eugene Ormandy

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Graham Greene

Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.

Johnny Cash

There's no insecurity about my song writing. I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

Carmen Electra

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Kurt Russell

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

Jennifer Aniston

Marriage brings up all the things I pushed to the back burner - the fears, the mistrust, the doubts, the insecurities. It's like opening Pandora's box.

Kate Winslet

I kept on going and I overcame my fears and got over my insecurities.

Polly Bergen

Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

Lauren Conrad

I haven't met a woman without insecurities.

John Lennon

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Kanye West

I used to have insecurity about my finances, then I announced that I had debt, and now I don't have any insecurities.

Judd Apatow

All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.

Martin Freeman

Every actor is riddled with insecurity, of course. But weirdly, I don't really find that I'd be daunted with taking on roles or anything.

Kristen Stewart

It's amazing to realize that a lot of the insecurities I had when I was younger have pretty much disappeared.

Skylar Grey

I discovered that my insecurities and my flaws were things that I actually need to embrace, and I let them become my superpowers.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

Penny Marshall

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

Mason Cooley

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

Michael Bergin

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

Mike Leigh

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

Lauryn Hill

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Lisa Ling

We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity.

Ray Romano

I was wracked with insecurity.

Stefan Molyneux

There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Taylor Swift

I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

Taylor Swift

My confidence is easy to shake. I am very well aware of all of my flaws. I am aware of all the insecurities that I have.

Will Durant

Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

Vincent Van Gogh

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.