Owncaricature Quotes & Sayings

I have been casting shadows all my life without caring about how deeply they stain my soul. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Epictetus would reject this manner of dealing with insults as being woefully counterproductive. He would point out, to begin with, that the political correctness movement has some untoward side effects. One is that the process of protecting disadvantaged individuals from insults will tend to make them hypersensitive to insults: They will, as a result, feel the sting not only of direct insults but of implied insults as well. — William B. Irvine

I've had experiences that, you know, really couldn't be replaced. — Elizabeth Edwards

Here's my philosophy in life: If there's a fire, you put it out. If there's a flood, you fill sandbags and you build a dike. You roll up your sleeves and you get to work. — James Cameron

If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The citizens of a city are not guilty of the crimes committed in their city; but they are guilty as participants in the destiny of [humanity] as a whole and in the destiny of their city in particular; for their acts in which freedom was united with destiny have contributed to the destiny in which they participate. They are guilty, not of committing the crimes of which their group is accused, but of contributing to the destiny in which these crimes happened. — Paul Tillich

Some of our problems may be frustrating, but when looked at closely, we realize how lucky we are to have such problems. — Charles F. Glassman

I understand, Catherine," he said.
What does he mean that he understands, Catherine wondered. Something I failed to hear, no doubt, she thought, though their words had been so few that she could not imagine what. But she quickly decided not to exasperate him ;by a question; she was sure of his kind intention, and deeply touched by it. — James Agee

We must continually maintain an adventurous attitude toward Him, despite any potential personal risk. — Oswald Chambers

Listen to presences inside poems,
Let them take you where they will.
Follow those private hints,
and never leave the premises. — Rumi

We have pills for headaches. We have antidepressants for sadness. We had God for believers. We have nothing for autism. — Lisa Genova

The time we waste is equal to the distance between ourselves and the iron rod. — Kimberly Jo Smith

Here is Lady Winchilsea, for example, I thought, taking down her poems. She was born in the year 1661; she was noble both by birth and by marriage; she was childless; she wrote poetry, and one has only to open her poetry to find her bursting out in indignation against the position of women: — Virginia Woolf