Ourself Centered Quotes & Sayings

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect — Jacques Barzun

I spit on you by accident — Yuan Hung-Tao

I like ordinary. People only wish for adventure until they're stuck in the middle of one. Haven't you ever seen The Fellowship of the Ring? — Kendare Blake

Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate. — Lisa Unger

A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today. — Stephen King

It's not a pleasant place to be lying while the world is moving and doing and bettering... but it rather seems as though we ought to go back to the place we came from in the end. — Willa Cather

Today there are about six thousand languages in the world, and half of the world's population speaks only ten of them. English is the single most dominant of these ten. — Christine Kenneally

Teach the children! It is painting in fresco. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Five runs with two outs is tough to take. It sure took the air out of our balloon. — Mike Hargrove

The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man. — William H. Seward

Experience is a great teacher. You will have to go through the trials and tribulations and the ecstasies and abandoned moments of wonderfulness that all of us did on the way to enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

But it wasn't really empty. Because here in the Overlook things just went on and on. — Stephen King

Words hold power. They can bring you from the lowest low to an ultimate high in a matter of moments, and just the opposite, too — Belle Aurora

I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish mistakes. — John Clayton

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct. — Phaedrus