Ofhimself Quotes

#1. Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

Simone Weil

#2. Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

William Butler Yeats

#3. I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

Rick Perry

#4. It's not stand by your man anymore, it's divorce the fucker.

Gillian Flynn

#5. I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

Timothy Spall

#6. I stopped being half-witted and became sly whenever I took the trouble.

Samuel Beckett

#7. I want to produce the best popular music I can.

Theophilus London

#8. I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

Serena Williams

#9. America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.

Thomas M. Disch

#10. Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

Edmund S. Muskie

#11. I wish I could say something classy and inspirational, but that just wouldn't be our style ... Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory ... lasts forever.

Keanu Reeves

#12. I decided to become a policeman to speak for the dead. They have no one else, you see. Somewhere there's always proof of what happened, some piece of evidence that will obtain a conviction. It's important for the guilty to be brought to justice, I think. Without justice, there's chaos.

Charles Todd