Quotes by Authors - Page 67

My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I have been a selfish being all my life in practice though not in principle.
Jane Austen
I shall stay the way I am Because I do not give a damn.
Dorothy Parker
I am as my Creator made me and since He is satisfied so am I.
Minnie Smith
I think Dostoevsky was right that every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture where he says this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
Rollo May
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing or very little the shock can kill a man.
Ernest Hemingway
Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity.
Erich Fromm
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
Theodore Isaac Rubin
If you really do put a small value upon yourself rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Anonymous
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
Axel Munthe
There is nothing will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
George Eliot
I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?
Frank J. Giblin
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice.
W.H. Auden
Be like the bird that passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight feels them give way beneath her and yet sings knowing that she hath wings.
Victor Hugo
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.
John Steinbeck
Protection and security are only valuable if they do not cramp life excessively.
Carl Jung
Nerves provide me with energy. ... It's when I don't have them when I feel at ease that I get worried.
Mike Nichols
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
Oscar Wilde
No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather
You are all you will ever have for certain.
June Havoc
Man's security comes from within himself.
Manly Hall
I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley Maclaine
Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.
Anonymous
Only in growth reform and change paradoxically enough is true security to be found.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived their usefulness and adapting others to current facts.
William O. Douglas
Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.
John Cudahy
Safety first has been the motto of the human race for half a million years but it has never been the motto of leaders.
Anonymous
It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
Dag Hammarskjöld
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
There is no security no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago we will do it again. Actually every time we begin we wonder how we ever did it before.
Natalie Goldberg
Truly nothing is to be expected but the unexpected.
Alice James
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so right in the middle of it we die lose a leg fall in love drop a jar of applesauce.
Natalie Goldberg
The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.
Henry Miller
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
Eudora Welty
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
Helen Keller
Security is a false god begin making sacrifices to it and you are lost.
Paul Bowles
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.
Isak Dinesen
There is a skeleton in every house.
Anonymous
Autumn to winter winter into spring. Spring into summer summer into fall - So rolls the changing year and so we change -Motion so swift we know not that we move.
Dinah Mulock Craik
The sea hath no king but God alone.
Christina Rossetti
I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
John Masefield
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
Louisa May Alcott
Science is simply common sense at its best - that is rigidly accurate in observation and merciless to fallacy in logic.
T. H. Huxley
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know what I'm doing.
Wernher von Braun
Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented among other things the crank the horse collar eyeglasses the flying buttress the stirrup the windmill the wheelbarrow printing firearms paper the canal lock the compass the rudder the mechanical clock the spinning wheel and the treadle.
Joseph and Frances Gies
Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.
Buckminster Fuller
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle
The telephone is the most important single technological resource of later life.
Alex Comfort
The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
Paul R. Ehrlich
No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited.
Douglas Yates
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Marston Bates
As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown our science and technology are so powerful that if an intense effort is made we can do almost anything we want in say ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.
Hannes Alfvin
It may be bizarre but in my opinion science offers a sure path to God and religion.
Paul Davies
Technology - the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch