Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rudyard Kipling

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

Laurie Halse Anderson

I wish adults would spend less energy freaking out about the cutting itself and work harder to understand what drives kids to self-harm.

Caitlin Moran

Self-harm - the world will come at you with knives anyway. You do not need to beat them to it.

Demi Lovato

There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin - that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear.

Angelina Jolie

Some people go shopping - I cut myself.

Christina Ricci

When I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, & it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain - one that really wants to destroy the other. & sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.

Sandy Gallin

I love collections of things, but always in moderation.

Virginia Woolf

All extremes are dangerous.

W. S. Gilbert

I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.

Stephen LaDue

You will see a moderation in some markets.

Ellen Glasgow

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

Ozzy Osbourne

I can't do anything in moderation.

Oscar Wilde

Be moderate in all things, including moderation.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Moderation in all things, especially moderation.