Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Lindbergh

I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Charles Lindbergh

We can so reconstruct society that it will be self-perpetuating instead of as now, self-exhaustive.

Charles Krauthammer

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

Aidan Gillen

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious,

Aidan Chambers

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

Ai Weiwei

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Ai Weiwei

Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics.

Ai Weiwei

Self-censorship is insulting to the self. Timidity is a hopeless way forward.

Bo Burnham

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Bill Rancic

When you lose your hair, it has an impact on confidence and your overall self-esteem whether it affects your career or your love life.

Bill Keller

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.

Bill Johnson

Whatever you gain through self promotion you'll have to sustain through self promotion. When our promotion comes from God, He sustains it.

Jane Austen

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Jane Austen

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

Jane Austen

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed....

Jane Austen

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

James Wolk

No one ever judges their own self.

Jason Biggs

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's someone else."

Jason Alexander

Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it's going to change or save the world.

Janos Kadar

I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests - let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.

Janos Kadar

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Janis Ian

Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.

Janis Joplin

Don't compromise your self, you're all you got.

Jared Diamond

Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.

Janet Jackson

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

C. S. Lewis

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

C. S. Lewis

A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute.

Miley Cyrus

My 13-year-old self would have beaten up my 17-year-old self because she would be like, 'You're a sellout!'

Calvin Coolidge

Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest.

Bryant H. McGill

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

Bryant H. McGill

Choose to be pro-active, assertive and self-defining.