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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
envy causes misery
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it. Samuel Johnson
envy common incessant
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Jonathan Swift
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy pay spurs
Envy's a sharper spur than pay. John Gay
envy may fool
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.
envy kind praise
Envy is a kind of praise.
interesting people roles
One of the interesting things is, the most gifted people, the biggest people, have no problem taking small roles. Woody Allen
interesting failing something-new
You have to continuously fail. You fail at something, then you get over it, then you fail some more. And after you fail, there's always something new there. And that something new can be really interesting. William Shatner
interesting choices variation
After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland. Robin Wright
interesting provoking
To be interesting, one has to provoke. Salvador Dali
interesting way television
In some ways, you could argue, television is doing far more interesting work than the movies. It's more fulfilling. William Boyd
interesting stories crafts
Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. William Kennedy
interesting culture language
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting. Sandra Cisneros
interesting painting very-interesting
Painting is very interesting. Sam Waterston
interesting actresses different
I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that theres so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you. Ryan Gosling