Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.
Insecure people have a special sensitivity for anything that finally confirms their own low opinion of themselves.
Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.
Love isn't making others into the people we imagine they should be. It's about letting people be themselves
You cannot reason people out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
If birds can fend for themselves, it means there’s hope for our tomorrow.
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
At around nine or 10 years of age, young people start to decide for themselves what's moral or not, and that's why I like writing for that age group so much.
The rates of soda consumption in our poorest communities cannot be explained by individual consumer preferences alone, but rather are linked to broader issues of access and affordability of healthy foods in low-income neighborhoods, and to the market...
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
