When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Cyberspace can't compensate for real space. We benefit from chatting to people face to face.
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
While you keep ageing, your experience compensates for your lost brain power.
Should' assumes that when either willingness or ability is lacking, it may be compensated for by an abundance of the other. This is simply not realistic.
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
No true friendship takes account of credit and debt. It gives freely, without thought of compensation or reward.
The worst things always happen at night, and oftener than one would think on stormy nights. ("The Compensation House")
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.
It is one light which beams out of a thousand stars. It is one soul which animates all men.
He’s jealous because lions are better hunters.”--Monroe “Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” --Bastian
That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
Be wary of people who go out of their way in charity. They're usually compensating for some evil they're trying to erase.
For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering
There are disappointments in all men's lives, even those who have achieved their ambition, and there are compensations.
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise of wages.
