Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Donovan

Self-inflicted wounds, you know. It was all just self-inflicted.

Sathya Baba

The wise are those who know the Self.

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Andy White

I slept in today until about 12. I had finals (scheduled), but I hadn't studied for any of them, and I was really tired, so I took a break.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Charles Bukowski

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Dorothy Day

The final word is love.

Anthony de Mello

The Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

Stuart Price

Any take, anything that's recorded while the mic is on, that could be the final take.

John Thaw

There is no more final end than death

Garth Nix

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Gervais Barger

Look at the number of teams in finals this weekend. That says a lot for our conference. Every night, we were in a tough game. There are some good teams ... every night was a battle.

Ashwin Sanghi

In the Sanghi family, there is no one who has undertaken intellectual pursuits.

Ayn Rand

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

C. S. Lewis

When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery.

Craig MacDonald

The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.

Brandi Carlile

I'd love to claim the title of 'songwriter' or 'intellectual,' but the truth is that anything that I ever learned how to do in conjunction with music was purely so that I would have a platform to sing from.

Clive James

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Clint Eastwood

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

Adolf Hitler

All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.

Albert Einstein

The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.