Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan Doyle

My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Baha'u'llah

Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Azar Nafisi

With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.

Ayn Rand

Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind.

Ayn Rand

No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul.

Ayn Rand

A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack

Ayn Rand

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

Audie Murphy

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

Karen Clark

The shop was going from summer clothes to fall/winter, so other Junior League volunteers helped me sort and go through clothing items that would work for South Africa,

Ben E. King

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Celine Buckens

Well, I love clothes.

Katia Winter

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

Wu Yi

The only way out is to produce value-added clothes.Garment manufacturers should explore new markets to disperse market risks.

Anton Chekhov

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Rupert Holmes

If you like making love at midnight in the dunes of the cape, you're the love that I've looked for, come with me and escape.

Tom Robbins

Albert Camus wrote that the only serious question is whether to kill yourself or not. Tom Robbins wrote that the only serious question is whether time has a beginning and an end. Camus clearly got up on the wrong side of bed, and Robbins must have forgotten to set the alarm. There is only one serious question. And that is: Who knows how to make love stay? Answer me that and I will tell you whether or not to kill yourself.

Spike Milligan

We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.

Gianni Versace

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music.

Ryan Stiles

When it comes to making love, I may not be the best, but I'm damn gouda.

Rowan Williams

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.

Diana Gabaldon

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought.