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

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Chris Ferris

This is one of the fundamental specifications the world has been waiting for,

Brian Austin Green

As of right now, I'm still waiting to meet Halle Berry. And she is single.

C. S. Lewis

If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Eckhart Tolle

The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Bryant H. McGill

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

Carson McCullers

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Brigham Young

Miracles, or those extraordinary manifestations of the power of god, are not for the unbeliever; they are to console the Saints, and to strengthen and confirm the faith of those who love, fear, and serve God.

Denis Diderot

To prove the Gospels by a miracle is to prove an absurdity by something contrary to nature.

Deepak Chopra

If you knew that miracles could happen, what miracles would you wish for? If you knew that you could have it all and do anything you wanted, what would you choose to have and what would you choose to do?

Donna Tartt

I guess that anything we manage to save from history is a miracle.

e. e. cummings

Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

Douglas Coupland

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.