Egos Trip Quotes & Sayings

While I pulled out my Kindle and settled into a good murder mystery. — Barbra Annino

There are three things we have to let go of. The first is the compulsion to be successful. Second, is the compulsion to be right-especially theologically right. (That's merely an ego trip, and because of this "need" churches split in half, with both parties prisoners of their own egos.) Finally, there is the compulsion to be powerful, to have everything under control. — Richard Rohr

You know, back in acting school they always teach you, 'Make bold choices and look for activities that are interesting.' — Mickey Rourke

I am an Orangeman first and a politician and member of this parliament [Stormont] afterwards. — William Lane Craig

A state of apostasy is worse than a state of ignorance. — Matthew Henry

The white hands of the tenebrous belle deal the hand of destiny. Her fingernails are longer than those of the mandarins of ancient China and each is pared to a fine point. These and teeth as fine and white as spikes of spun sugar are the visible signs of the destiny she wistfully attempts to evade via the arcana; her claws and teeth have been sharpened on centuries of corpses, she is the last bud of the poison tree that sprang from the loins of Vlad the Impaler who picnicked on corpses in the forests of Transylvania.
The walls of her bedroom are hung with black satin, embroidered with tears of pearl. At the rooms four corners are funerary urns and bowls which emit slumbrous, pungent fumes of incense. In the centre is an elaborate catafalque, in ebony, surrounded by long candles in enormous silver candlesticks. In a white lace negligee stained a little with blood, the Countess climbs up on her catafalque at dawn each morning and lies down in an open coffin. — Angela Carter

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike. — Anne Bronte

Darlin', you are all female but not in the least little bit weak. — Avery Flynn

His cheeks were all pinked up. Travel agreed with him, and she might have known: people like Quinn, always running from themselves, loved the road. — Monica Wood

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares! — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't. — Isaac Stern

I'm a TV man, not a money man. — Silvio Santos

Cleaning the house while the children are home is like shoveling while it's still snowing. — Erma Bombeck

Islamic state - stretching from — Erick Stakelbeck