Effacement Quotes

#1. And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

John Crowe Ransom

#2. For example, the early Girl Scout handbooks preached an ethic of self-sacrifice and self-effacement. The chief obstacle to happiness, the handbook exhorted, comes from the overeager desire to have people think about you.

David Brooks

#3. Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

Nancy Kress

#4. I would call him an ordinary man, but, well."
Another grin.
"Even I am not capable of such delusional self-effacement.

Courtney Milan

#5. To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Dag Hammarskjold

#6. So much of my life has been about self-effacement, pretense, masquerading, concealment, and indirection.

Marlon Riggs

#7. Our broken society is not born out of the triumph of the individual, but out of his effacement. He vanishes, she vanishes, ask them who they are and they will offer you a wallet or a child.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. The ultimate self-effacement
is not the pretense of the minimal,
but the jocular considerations of the maximal
in the manner of Wallace Stevens.

Mark Strand

#9. What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

Christian Harrison

#10. Mark this well, you proud men of action: You are nothing but the unwitting agents of the men of thought who often, in quiet self-effacement, mark out most exactly all your doings in advance.

Heinrich Heine

#11. I was used to being perceived as having a good attitude. Self-control, self-effacement, self-denial. People like this, especially in girls.

Stephanie Grant

#12. There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

Edward Abbey

#13. When you live a life devoid of ritual and convention, with honesty and self-effacement, then you are on the road to freedom.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Ask yourself this: How much deprivation, how much self-effacement must you suffer through before you act on your desire for meaning and fulfillment? Before it's your turn to thrive in your life, instead of barely surviving it? Some people live their dreams. Why not you?

Jillian Michaels

#15. If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

Russell Brand

#16. Beaming and melting in smiles of benevolence and self-effacement, they sidled up and plumped down next to Lucette, who turned to them with her last, last, last free gift of staunch courtesy that was stronger than failure and death.

Vladimir Nabokov

#17. I don't even like Greg Glassman. I don't have a cult like allegiance to the guy. I really don't like him. He's too hard to get on the phone and he doesn't drink my kind of scotch.

Mark Rippetoe

#18. It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.

Maxim Gorky

#19. When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care.

Iyanla Vanzant

#20. I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

Daniel Day-Lewis

#21. I mean, I'm not hoping for the apes and the monolith. I'm hoping for controlled chaos to assist us.

Jon Stewart

#22. Anyone can have an off decade.

Larry Cole

#23. Imperfection is an end. Perfection is only an aim.

Ivor Cutler

#24. I spent my whole life trying to play the games males play.

Elisabeth Shue