Quotes & Sayings About Pagiging Mayabang

They weren't kicked out of the Garden of Eden because of their thirst for knowledge; they developed their thirst for knowledge by being kicked out of the Garden. — Michael Walterich

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent. — R.D. Laing

Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result
eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly
in you. — Bill Bryson

My parents, Romanian immigrants, struggled to provide me a better life than the ones they had left in their homeland. They worked hard to give me every opportunity in life, and once I showed natural talent as a young gymnast, they spent every last penny on my training. — Dominique Moceanu

Just as violence is the last refuge of the inarticulate, so it is also the first resort of the incompetent, the easy out for the man who is capable of expressing himself only in the most primitive and vulgar of dramatic terms. He leaves us with only the obscenity of violence per se - and the pornographer thereof will always be with us, in film as in any other medium. And so will his audience. — Judith Crist

It may be a superhuman effort to lose oneself so completely, but that's nothing compared to the effort of getting oneself back again — Donna Tartt

I want people who are going to rock out for the duration. — Torae

When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine. — Rumi

for some disturbing reason, no one suggests that aliens may have assisted in building the Parthenon or Colosseum.) — Seth Shostak

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture teaches us that we are all natural-born killers but that males are more able to realize the predator role. In the dominator model the pursuit of external power, the ability to manipulate and control others, is what matters most. When culture is based on a dominator model, not only will it be violent but it will frame all relationships as power struggles. — Bell Hooks

If you have no one to fight for, that doesn't mean you have no one to fight for you — Grace Johnson

The brain has not explained the mind fully. — Wilder Penfield

There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. — Henry Ward Beecher

Christ's blood in heaven, you ignorant, incompetent whey-faced nestlecock, do you think I am a hired spy, an informer? That I have a master, a paymaster, for God's love? You silly little man. — Patrick O'Brian

FESTIVITY BREEDS CREATIVITY. RIGIDITY BREEDS DESPAIR — Julia Cameron