Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Roebuck

It can be absurd, cantankerous, self-destructive and pompous, but it is never crass

Richard Paul Evans

In your hurry to keep Christmas, you have forgotten Christmas. The truest gift of Christmas is the gift of self.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Richard Dawkins

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Richard Dawkins

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.

Ryan Hall

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.

Rose Macaulay

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.

Tryon Edwards

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.

Reinhold Messner

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.

Daniel Solove

Having your identity stolen is somewhat like contracting a chronic, protracted disease.

Kurt Busch

Each driver has their own identity and from one week to another, normally it stays the same.

Khaled Hosseini

You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Jeff Goldblum

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Noam Chomsky

American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Judith Butler

Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

Oswald Chambers

The disciple is rich not in possessions, but in personal identity.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Nations which don't find their national identities will be preyed upon by other nations.

Nikki Giovanni

She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.

John Yoo

I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that.

Pat Gillick

He'd be the most likely guy in the group. But a lot depends on what we do leading up to Spring Training.

Lou Marino

I think the extent to which that happens depends on how much of the top management would be retained.

Robert Jarvis

I think we've got a chance, an opportunity. A lot depends on how we execute, and our young guys can't let the pressure get to them.

Avery Johnson

I think we're just going to see how it goes. It all depends who we play.

Willie Randolph

He's going to go out and throw and get loose. It depends how he feels. If you're 100 percent sure that he's OK, you do it. But if not, you don't want to start the season with someone aggravating something that sidelines them any period of time.

Manuel Pellegrini

He's full of desire. Besides, his soccer depends more on technique than physique.

Thomas Bjorn

He's playing every shot like his life depends on it.

Reggie Jackson

I don't know that you can. Of course, it all depends on what they find.