Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Faraday

As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

Melissa Sue Anderson

I'm calculating, self-sufficient, reserved, and I enjoy being alone

Melinda Gates

All women, everywhere, have the same hopes: we want to be self-sufficient and create better lives for ourselves and our loved ones.

Melissa Etheridge

Believe in yourself and what you feel. Your power will come from that.

Michael McKean

Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.

Michael Hutchence

It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

Michael Irvin

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

Michael Horton

A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

Michael Ian Black

I don't necessarily self-identify as a writer, 'cause it implies a certain level of intelligence.

Joseph Brodsky

Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those-in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed. Suffer them if you can't escape them, but once you have steered clear of them, give them the shortest shrift possible. Above all, try to avoid telling stories about the unjust treatment you received at their hands; avoid it no matter how receptive your audience may be. Tales of this sort extend the existence of your antagonists....

Joseph Brodsky

...boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson in your life--...the lesson of your utter insignificance. It is valuable to you, as well as to those you are to rub shoulders with. 'You are finite,' time tells you in a voice of boredom, 'and whatever you do is, from my point of view, futile.' As music to your ears, this, of course, may not count; yet the sense of futility, of limited significance even of your best, most ardent actions is better than the illusion of their consequence and the attendant self-satisfaction.

Little Richard

God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

Leonard Woolf

Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must aim at getting into the record of it something of the disorderly discontinuity which makes it so absurd, unpredictable, bearable.

Leonardo da Vinci

When you are alone you are all your own.

Oscar Wilde

The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.

Oscar Wilde

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

Oscar Wilde

One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

Oscar Wilde

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

Paul Rice

Fair Trade is a market-based, entrepreneurial response to business as usual: it helps third-word farmers developing direct market access as well as the organizational and management capacity to add value to their products and take them directly to the global market. Direct trade, a fair price, access to capital and local capacity-building, which are the core strategies of this model, have been successfully building farmers' incomes and self-reliance for more than 50 years.

Paul Reiser

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Lily Collins

No matter what, I need to maintain my sense of self and always be true to who I am.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Lev Grossman

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is no wretchedness like self-reproach.

Leon Kass

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

LeAnn Rimes

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

Lauren Oliver

Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good.

Lauren Oliver

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

Larry Wall

The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

L. Neil Smith

Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal - or have stolen for you what you are unable or unwilling to work for. Socialism is a philosophy fit only for slugs, leaches, and mosquitoes.

P. J. O'Rourke

One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.

Paul Mooney

Whatever that thing is that white people like in blacks, I don't have it. Maybe it's my arrogance or my self-assurance or the way I carry myself, but whatever it is, I don't have it.

Paul Brunton

Your self is sacred; be true to it.