Ego Stroking Quotes

#1. Being able to read a book in another language is a source of ego-stroking pride.

Emily O'Beirne

#2. Give me your phone number," I say.

"As long as you aren't planning to text me pics of your ego stroking after school."

I laugh and clutch at my heart. "Dammit, Six. I love every single word that comes out of your mouth."

"Cock," she says dryly.

She's evil.

Colleen Hoover

#3. Godly teachers encourage questions; those who demand unthinking agreement have something to hide.

Lee Strobel

#4. In the end it had to do with stroking my own ego, not pleasing you, Sir.

Red Phoenix

#5. My life is going to change. I feel it.

Raymond Carver

#6. Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster...

Virginia Alison

#7. It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers.

Joyce Carol Oates

#8. I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Lou Reed

#9. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#10. The morning was on fire as the sun rose, seemingly from the ocean depths. The great, glowing orb came to the surface and set the horizon aflame. Many minutes passed, and it floated fully into the sky to light the day and gently warm the sea below.

Victoria Kahler

#11. It's easier to invade a small country than to file a court document.

Melody A. Kramer

#12. As if your ego needs any more stroking. If it took form right now it'd be a giant hard on.

Amy Andrews

#13. It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

Octavio Paz

#14. I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris.

Chris Van Allsburg

#15. It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

Fiona Apple

#16. No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.

Louise Hay