Karen Uhlenbeck Quotes

#1. I think a lot of self-importance is a product of fear. And fear, living in sort of an un-self-examined fear-based life, tends to lead to narcissism and self-importance.

Moby

#2. She just wanted to be comfortable in her own skin ... But she would not stop to seek others' approval. The notion that she should never seemed to enter her head. Her right to live as she pleased was not up for negotiation, even if it ran against the grain of the milieu at Huntingdon.

Charles J. Shields

#3. You tried to play the game, okay? But they run the game. You don't run anything. That means you can't change anything. Not from the inside. When you got nothing, you got to change things from the outside.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#4. One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.

Cormac McCarthy

#5. Life is full of screwups," he said, chucking another paper at the split-level before taking the corner. "You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.

Sarah Dessen

#6. The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

Franz Cizek

#7. Democrats believe in reigniting the American dream by removing barriers to success and building ladders of opportunity for all, so everyone can succeed.

Nancy Pelosi

#8. All men love themselves.

Plautus

#9. Who doesn't want to shoot for 'Vogue?' I remember updating my Facebook status to say 'Doing 'Vogue' today', it was so exciting. I thought it would be really intimidating, and I don't like photoshoots, but that was the most relaxed one I've done.

Kaya Scodelario

#10. How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness

Rohinton Mistry

#11. So I didn't pass. It was the army's decision that they didn't want me to go into the service. They're the boss. I don't want to say no whole lot about it.

Muhammad Ali

#12. Run Forrest, run!

Winston Groom

#13. The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

Horatius Bonar