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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 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
selfish compassion people
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. Rose Macaulay
self criticism desert
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. Tryon Edwards
self mountain way
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. Reinhold Messner
tree use world
The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree. William McDonough
tree today walking
Today I stood taller from walking among the trees. Willa Cather
tree world want
On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree W. S. Merwin
tree together bigs
Lots and lots of trees together, equals big trees! Zac Hanson
tree top-model fruit
Once you plant seeds of success, your tree will bear fierce fruit. Tyra Banks
tree storm toads
The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl. Washington Irving
tree world growing
Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them. William Boyd
tree seeing
I thought maybe he was seeing another tree. - Juniper Rick Riordan
tree murder cases
As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned. Robert Graves
legs lift mean spear stick
I went to put my stick between his legs and lift his stick up, but I just got him too high. I didn't mean to spear him. It was just an accident. Ryan Whitney
legs height frozen
Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts? Mahatma Gandhi
legs firsts belief
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs. Larry Gelbart
legs
No, I have something else between my legs. Novak Djokovic
legs lourdes crutches
The road to Lourdes is littered with crutches, but not one wooden leg. Emile Zola
legs may free-will
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will. Epictetus
legs opportunity
It was an opportunity for them to get their legs back under them. Bret Bielema
legs march
It's going to be an important March for us, an important March for everybody. It's going to be important for us to get our legs under us right away. Jarret Stoll
legs firsts ariel
You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.' Carly Rae Jepsen