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self
It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass Peter Roebuck
self forgotten truest
In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self. Richard Paul Evans
selfishness disguise inspection
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Richard Dawkins
selfish earth rebel
We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.
selfish eye sight
Natural selection, the blind, unconscious, automatic process which Darwin discovered, and which we now know is the explanation forthe existence and apparently purposeful form of all life, has no purpose in mind. It has no mind and no mind's eye. It does not plan for the future. It has no vision, no foresight, no sight at all. If it can be said to play the role of the watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker.
self errors intuition
The question I try and ask myself when I consider whether or not to train more is what is my body craving and what is my body ready to absorb? Sometimes pushing harder is not the answer. It takes self control, confidence, and intuition to know when to train and when to rest, but when in question error on the side of being over rested. Ryan Hall
selfish compassion people
How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
If you have a high-way on Everest, you don't meet the mountain. If everything is prepared, and you have a guide who is responsible for your security, you cannot meet the mountain. Meeting mountains is only possible if you . . . are out there in self-sufficiency. Reinhold Messner
feminist puritan i-can
Personally I'm not a feminist, as I can't stand puritans. Vivienne Westwood
feminist telling-the-truth
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life Virginia Woolf
feminist devil might
But when feminists suggest that God might be a She without suggesting that the Devil might also be female, they must be opposed. Warren Farrell
feminist boat realizing
The feminists who are aware of the effects of patriarchy realize that we are all in the same boat from the dangers of patriarchy, and that the oppression of women is universal. Nawal El Saadawi
feminist offensive dont-like-me
Feminists don't like me, and I don't like them. Mel Gibson
feminist movement males
But one did not do feminist theory, as such, in those days, not only because male academic discourse did not recognize such a term, but especially because the womens movement did not either. Teresa de Lauretis
feminist childhood identity
Some women have 'always' been lesbians. Others, like myself, have 'become' one. As much a sociocultural construction as it is an effect of early childhood experiences, sexual identity is nether innate nor simply acquired, but dynamically (re)structured by forms of fantasy private and public, conscious and unconscious, which are culturally available and historically specific.
feminist empowerment able
I'm a bit of a feminist and very "female empowerment," and women should be able to do what they please. Laura Vandervoort
feminist saint pupils
When feminists become saints, we will become their pupils. Peter Kreeft
perception saying
I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate. Steve Tisch
perception ease information
Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information. Samuel Dash
perception-of-beauty perception makeup-and-beauty
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. Kevyn Aucoin
perception world knows
Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it. Lamar Odom
perception gaps immigration
There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration. Mark Krikorian
perception degrees taste
We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with. Ralph Waldo Emerson
perception worried chasing
I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time. Elisabeth Hasselbeck
perception movement landscape
Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. Freda Adler
perception emotion logic
Logic will never change emotion or perception. Edward de Bono