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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 grace denial
I take the love of God and self-denial to be the sum of all saving grace and religion. Richard Baxter
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
self long age
Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps there even comes a time when it’s no longer too late for anything. Perhaps, even, most times are too early for most things, and most of life has to go by before it’s time for almost anything and too late for almost nothing. Nothing to lose, the present moment to gain, the integration with long-delayed Now. Russell Hoban
self ideas people
No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you. Russell Brand
people social sports student
I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with. Andrew Shue
people ryan telling
Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere. Don Miller
people seeing touches watching
Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me, Jeff Palmer
people worked
I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it. Stephen Graham
people work
I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me. Graham Elliot
people
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving. Gale Norton
people truth
I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right? Gary Sheffield
people
I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry. Sam Rockwell
people whether work
I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it. Sam Worthington
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever
literature
To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like Northrop Frye
literature classic produce
Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.
literature doe students
I soon realized that a student of English literature who does not know the Bible does not understand a good deal of what is going on in what he reads: The most conscientous student will be continually misconstruing the implications, even the meaning.
literature study subjects
Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.
literature now-and-then made
...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened. Norman Maclean