Niemtzow The Problematic Of Self Quotes & Sayings

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. — Samuel Butler

I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face. — Charlie Bell

No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move ... — Satchel Paige

And it was not that he seemed to have forgotten or intentionally forgiven the affront, but simply that he did not regard it as an affront — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An observation that people who live permanently in an adoptive country tend to progressively generalize the bad and particularize the good, that is, attribute the bad traits in people they encounter to the national trait of the natives, and the good things to the individual.
This holds equally well for French people living in the U.S. as it does for Americans living in France. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will. — Antonio Gramsci

My master likewise mentioned another Quality which his Servants had discovered in several Yahoos, and to him was wholly unaccountable. He said, a Fancy would sometimes take a Yahoo, to retire into a Corner, to lie down and howl, and groan, and spurn away all that came near him, although he were young and fat, wanted neither Food nor Water; nor did the Servants imagine what could possibly ail him. And the only Remedy they found was to set him to hard Work, after which he would infallibly come to himself. To this I was silent out of Partiality to my own Kind; yet here I could plainly discover the true Seeds of Spleen, which only seizeth on the Lazy, the Luxurious, and the Rich; who, if they were forced to undergo the same Regimen I would undertake for the Cure. — Jonathan Swift

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them. — John Locke

In tyranny lies only failure. Empower every man and you will gain strength. — Russell Crowe

Clarice has a curious chemical reaction to boredom and the result can be similar to dynamite in the hands of a lunatic ... — Anne Morice

Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only - if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn't it? And isn't the whole point of things - beautiful things - that they connect you to some larger beauty? — Donna Tartt

Women are from Mars, men have a penis — Gene Simmons