Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Mertz

kissing someone out of pity is always a mistake.

Lucille Ball

When you're too mad and too rattled to see straight, you're bound to make mistakes. You can't go on and on for years being miserable about a situation and not have it change you. You get so you can't stand yourself.

Karl Popper

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to 'methodological collectivism'; it rightly insists that the 'behaviour' and the 'actions' of collectives, such as states or social groups, must be reduced to the behaviour and to the actions of human individuals. But the belief that the choice of such an individualist method implies the choice of a psychological method is mistaken.

Justin Cronin

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

Charles Stross

Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.

Chanakya

Low minded people are fraudulent, wicked and chaeat. They shouldnot be trusted. To h ave faith in low minded ones is mistake in policy and useless because they are not trustworthy. An administrator should not invited calamity by trusting the low minded ones.

Anais Nin

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Anais Nin

Worlds self made are so full of monsters and demons.

Anais Nin

Is devotion to others a cover for the hungers and the needs of the self, of which one is ashamed? I was always ashamed to take. So I gave. It was not virtue. It was a disguise.

Anais Nin

Balance is not to be sought by association with others; it must exist within one's self.

Anais Nin

The self is merely the lens through which we see others and the world ...

Anais Nin

There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.

Ann Beattie

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

Richard Matheson

…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.

Tariq Ramadan

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Chuck Palahniuk

Oh love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me, love me. I'll be anybody you want me to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything pretty,' Claire will tell you, 'it's only for sale because no one wants it.

Chuck Connors

I can never get rid of 'The Rifleman,' and I don't want to. It's a good image.

Angie Harmon

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it.

Amy Adams

I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

Anthony Doerr

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Alonzo Mourning

I know that all good things must come to an end and I've had an incredible ride. I just want to end it on the right note.