A Quotes
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“A self that is very robust, that has many, many levels of organization, from simple to complex, and that functions as a sort of witness to what is going on in our organisms.”
“A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.”
“A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.”
“A self-awareness moment. All of a sudden everything he has done comes flashing into his mind, a self-criticism that is unbearable.”
“A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge.”
Source: The Principles of Sociology
“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint's, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that,and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
“A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.”
“A self-fulfilling prophecy is an assumption or prediction that, purely as a result of having been made, cause the expected or predicted event to occur and thus confirms its own 'accuracy.'”
“A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.”
“A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.”
“A self-made man, if he is made at all, has already won the battle of life. . . . he has learned to resist. He has learned the value of money, and how to refuse to spend it. He has learned the value of time, and how the conversion of it into useful things will make of his life something worthwhile. He has learned to say no, to say no at the right time and then to stand by it. Without resistance, and the self-denial which it often imposes, there is no real happiness. In the quest for happiness man must learn that temptation resisted strengthens the mind and the soul.”
“A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.”
“a self-made martyr is a poor thing.”
Source: Vein of Iron
“A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.”
“A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.”
“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.”
“A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.”
Source: Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings
“A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.”
Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life
“A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.”
Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“A selfie has more face and fewer feelings.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A selfie has nothing to do with ego. It is a constant search for perfection.”
Source: Katie in Love
“A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone.”
“A selfie is nothing more than just an external reflection of yourself”
“A selfie with a celebrity is better proof of meeting a celebrity than the autograph of a celebrity.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.”
Source: Collected Works
“A selfish heart is an ever-consuming desert - no matter how much water you pour, it still wants more, whereas an unselfish heart is an ever-giving ocean - no matter how much water you draw, it still has plenty to give everyone.”
Source: Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live
“A selfish life is as empty as a candle sitting astride of a grave that is doomed to blow out with the next puff of dry wind.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you”
“A selfish living is a wasteful living”
“A selfish man is a thief.”
“A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.”
“A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.”
“A selfless act always generates positive energy for the person who performs the act and the person who is being helped”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“A selfless act by one person creates a ripple effect—as it emanates outward to touch countless lives”
Source: Living with Consciousness: Everyday Inspirations for Spiritual Growth and Personal Fulfillment
“A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.”
“A seller is a dealer. A buyer is a merchant. Why can’t you be a salesman?”
“A sellout is putting your name on any piece of crap and then expecting people to buy it because it's got your name on it. That's what a sellout is to me.”
“A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.”
“A sematary," I say. "A what?" Viola says, looking round at all the square stones marking out their graves. Must be a hundred, maybe two, in orderly rows and well-kept grass. Settler life is hard and it's short and lotsa New World people have lost the battle.
"It's a place for burying dead folk," I say.
Her eyes widen. "A place for doing what?"
"Don't people die in space?" I ask.
"Yeah," she says. "But we burn them. We don't put them in holes." She crosses her arms around herself, mouth and forehead frowning, peering around at the graves. "How can this be sanitary?”
Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go
“A semi-cirque of flying rooks, just seven in number, flapped with creaking wings across the top of the tower, making their way northwest towards Mark Moor. Little did they reck of the cracking of the skull of a man upon a patch of grass! As for a tiny earth beetle that was foraging for its insect prey just there, it scurried away from Tom's blood as if it had been a lake of brimstone.”
Source: A Glastonbury Romance
“A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.”
Source: Lacon: or, Many things in few words
“A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: His Life, Work, and Ideas : an Anthology
“A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your eyes.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“A Senate vote on gay marriage is a destructive pretension against the plan of God”
“A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel.”
“A senator will come off Capitol Hill and they'll be barred from two years from lobbying in the Senate. So they'll pick the phone up and they'll call their buddy, the senator, their old buddies, and they'll say, 'Listen, I'm here at this law firm now. I can't lobby you, but my new partner, Jack, can lobby you.'”
“A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.”
“A senhora deve saber se sou ou não sou. Sou o que a senhora me fez. Se todos os méritos são seus, a culpa também é; se todos os sucessos são seus, os fracassos também são. Em uma palavra, eu sou isso.”
Source: Great Expectations
“A senior always feels like the university is going to the kids.”
“A senior member of the Washington diplomatic corps, Bandar has played racquetball with Secretary of State Colin Powell in the late seventies. He had run covert operations for the late CIA director Bill Casey that were so hush-hush they were kept secret even from President Ronald Reagan. He was the man who stashed away thirty locked attache cases that held some of the deepest secrets in the intelligence world. And for two decades, Bandar built an intimate personal relationship with the Bush family that went far beyond a mere political friendship.”
Source: House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties