Quotes about self
self president facts
Donald Trump is a racist. Donald Trump in fact is making fascist appeals. That's why many self-respecting Republicans are not supporting Donald Trump for president. Martin O'Malley
self-confidence law ideas
The fatuous idea that a person can be holy by himself denies God the pleasure of saving sinners. God must therefore first take the sledge-hammer of the Law in His fists and smash the beast of self-righteousness and its brood of self-confidence, self wisdom, and self-help. When the conscience has been thoroughly frightened by the Law it welcomes the Gospel of grace with its message of a Savior Who came-not to break the bruised reed nor to quench the smoking flax-but to preach glad tidings to the poor, to heal the broken-hearted, and to grant forgiveness of sins to all the captives. Martin Luther
self errors language
...In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one. Mark Strand
self europe culture
Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness. Mark Steyn
self government needs
For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.
self elephants doubt
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression. Mariella Frostrup
self brain needs
The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion. Nick Bostrom
self instagram goes-on
We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. Nancy Jo Sales
self different exile
It's not good to live so much inside oneself. It's a self-imposed exile, really. It makes you different. Nancy Horan
self-love wish immortality
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality. Mortimer Adler
selfish concerned
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
self lust sensual
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
selfish giving lust
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
self mind criticism
a self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable. Philip Seymour Hoffman
self abandon
Who will adhere to him that abandons himself? Philip Sidney
self nurse care
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for it; and therefore, of all the Grecians, Homer doth ever make Achilles the best armed.
self delicacy causes
There is a certain delicacy which in yielding conquers; and with a pitiful look makes one find cause to crave help one's self.
self silence mind
Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn't restrain myself and spoke my mind. Philip Roth
self causes needs
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. Peter Dunne
self abuse celibacy
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. Peter De Vries
self nerd serious
I'm a self-confessed genre nerd. I'm a very serious actor, but a genre nerd, all the same. Penelope Mitchell
self inheritance sexuality
Our sexual self is a complex combination of our social, cultural, and biological inheritance. Pepper Schwartz
self-improvement transformation
Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom. Paulo Coelho
self people behavior
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. Marisha Pessl
self being-a-woman conscious
If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me. Marissa Mayer
self realization doe
The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim. Marianne Moore
self talent conscious
My theory is this: Women falter when they're called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they're called on to enact them. Meghan O'Rourke
self shining fronts
I can let my true self shine in front of God. Megan McCafferty
self long people
I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off. Megan Fox
self gloves stones
One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone. Sherwood Smith
self ideas psychology
The computer takes up where psychoanalysis left off. It takes the ideas of a decentered self and makes it more concrete by modeling mind as a multiprocessing machine. Sherry Turkle
self mind machines
If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often guilty preoccupation with the self as sexual, behind increasing interest in computational interpretations of mind is an equally nervous preoccupation with the self as machine.
selfish men thinking
Men are selfish and don't think about anything else but them self." pg. 45 Sherry Argov