Halman 20 Quotes & Sayings

If tempted by something that feels "altruistic," examine your motives and root out that self-deception. Then, if you still want to do it, wallow in it! — Robert A. Heinlein

She did not tell them to clean up their lives, or go and sin no more. She did not tell them they were the blessed of the earth, its inheriting meek, or its glory-bound pure. She told them that the only grace they could have is the grace they could imagine. That if they could not see it, they could not have it. — Toni Morrison

I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine. — Nas

Self-confidence is inseparable from submission to the creedal order, and through that order, to the supreme authority expressed in that order ... Deep individualism cannot exist except in relation to the highest authority. No inner discipline can operate without a charismatic institution, nor can such an institution survive without that supreme authority from a relation to whom self-confidence derives. Without an authority deeply installed, there is no foundation for individuality. Self-confidence thus expresses submission to supreme authority. — Philip Rieff

There has to be certainty and there has to be clarity. There can't be ambiguity, .. This has to be certain, clear in all respects from all the parties so nobody is in any doubt about what the future holds. — Tony Blair

I have the street smarts and survival skills of, like, a poodle. — Jennifer Lawrence

What a blessing to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think. — Robert Breault

I found the right man, got married, and just had to keep not reinventing myself, just deciding that it doesn't matter what you are if you are a good person. — Lisa Kudrow

The Lisbon girls were thirteen (Cecelia), and fourteen (Lux), and fifteen (Bonnie), and sixteen (Mary), and seventeen (Therese). — Jeffrey Eugenides

There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. — Jean Rhys