Insecureties Quotes & Sayings

Twentieth century women's fashions (with their cult of thinness) are the last stronghold of the metaphors associated with the romanticizing of TB in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. — Susan Sontag

Silence explains a lot of things.
It tells us why people are who they not supposed to be.
It's the fear of being afraid.
It's because of their own safety.
Sometimes it becomes an unexplainable feeling.
It shows the insecureties, acceptation, love and vulnerability
inside everyone of us. — Tessa Vanluchene

Perhaps effort doesn't matter, it isn't what ensures survival. — Helen Humphreys

When our society lost this communal network, many aspects of our culture died, including the fact that we lost contact with older family members who could give us perspective on our lives. Without that perspective, we've become overscheduled, hyperstimulated, and culturally grumpy. We are so burdened by the pace of our lives that when we must interact with older people who cannot keep up, we run out of patience trying to fit them into our schedules. We have forgotten - or never learned - how to value our senior adults' advice. As they begin to slow down, we push them aside so they don't impede our progress. While we may accomplish a lot every day, we don't necessarily feel good about our achievements because no one is there to tell us about the longer-term implications of choices we make. Many of us assume some things about senior adults that aren't true, and then can't understand why we aren't getting along better with this aging population. — David Solie

Only a few businesses will succeed by having the lowest price, so most will need a strategy that includes customer services. — Bill Gates

The poems and stories we shared with each other could mean what we wanted them to mean. We could choose our own path together. — Ally Condie

Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven't seen. — Mark Hertsgaard

I love to slip into the bookstore. It is my haven. I don't have to prove myself there. — Deborah Meyler

I wish that the world's food was spread evenly on everybody's plate, and that no-one got more or less than anyone else. — Arthur Potts Dawson

Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit - and I never really grew out of that, I don't think. — Paloma Faith

Scoutmasters need the capacity to enjoy the out-of-doors. — Baden Powell De Aquino

Anyway, life doesn't work like that. It doesn't care about fair or unfair. — Kendare Blake