Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ralston Saul

World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

Mark Steyn

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

Nick Jonas

I've always been a bit insecure about my smile, but its days like these where all I wanna do is smile.

Namie Amuro

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

Mariah Carey

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Sherry Turkle

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

Terence Stamp

All actors are incredibly insecure.

Miranda Kerr

Models are some of the most insecure people I've ever met. They're constantly being told they're not good enough. You've really got to practice loving yourself.

Marianne Williamson

You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightening about shrinking so others won't feel insecure around you. As you let your own light shine, you indirectly give others permission to do the same.

Oscar Wilde

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

Madonna Ciccone

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

Michael Jackson

Leinenkugels makes better beer now that Miller bought them. It will license insecure people to like craft beers.

Jesse McCartney

I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I'm always like, 'Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?' I get insecure about things from time to time.

Evgeny Morozov

Mobile phones are one of the most insecure devices that were ever available, so they're very easy to trace; they're very easy to tap.

Evan Dando

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

Eugen Herrigel

Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.

Eve Ensler

I am worried about this word, this notion - security. I see this word, hear this word, feel this word everywhere. Security check. Security watch. Security clearance. Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? ... Why are we suddenly a nation and a people who strive for security above all else?

Eve Ensler

It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

George Orwell

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

Fred Durst

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

Erich Fromm

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain.

Eminem

Insecure about my body, about my personality, sometimes even about my understanding of everything.

Greg Gutfeld

When you get famous and rich when you're young, what happens is you start feeling insecure.

Jessica Hahn

I was actually very ugly. I was ugly. I felt very insecure.

Gloria Gaynor

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The man who is not frightened of life is not frightened of being completely insecure for he understands that inwardly, psychologically, there is no security.....When there is no security there is an endless movement and then life and death are the same....The man who lives without conflict, who lives with beauty and love, is not frightened of death because to love is to die.

Jesse Eisenberg

I think it's a room full of insecure actors, which is ultimately very comforting.

Jenny McCarthy

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

Howard Schultz

One of the fundamental aspects of leadership, I realized more and more, is the ability to instill confidence in others when you yourself are feeling insecure

Ilka Chase

The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century - glossy, brash, and insecure.

David Oyelowo

One of the occupational hazards of being an actor, the reason why so many actors are insecure, is that the only way we know we're good is when other people tell us.