Relying On Oneself Quotes & Sayings

To be an ignorant man, to posses nothing but a fragile word, to find oneself as if relying upon darkness and nothingness: that is the position from which one must be constantly setting out. — Jean Starobinski

Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fully support oneself with the help of others within smaller, sustainable communities. Being interdependent instead of relying mostly on machines for the things we need. — Mary Mattingly

The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself. — Clarice Lispector

No one who goes astray affects himself alone, but rather will be the cause and instigator of someone else going astray; it is harmful to attach oneself to the people in front, and, so long as each one of us prefers to trust someone else's judgment rather than relying on his own, we never exercise judgment in our lives but constantly resort to trust, and a mistake that has been passed down from one hand to another takes us over and spins our ruin. — Seneca.

You know how it is. Boy meets girl, girl wants boy dead. An everyday story, really. — David Gemmell

Once he had a foot in the door he explained, "It's not for me to make moral judgments. I'm a businessman. I deal with people as they are, not as they ought to be." "Speaking — Helen DeWitt

Harvest time is a time of joy. — Sunday Adelaja

When he arrived, Keith (Olbermann) had one thing in mind: it was Keith. That's fine. Nothing wrong with that. — Bob Ley

Sailors, with their built in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world. — Nicholas Monsarrat

Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them. — Henry David Thoreau

I'm prepared to put you ahead of me for the rest of my life. — Jack Hodgins

Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth. — Soren Kierkegaard

Honest, I won't ever do it again. I'll go straight, after this. I'll never go to bed again, if I can only sleep now. — Dorothy Parker

Painting is a play of opacities and transparencies. — Pierre Soulages

I used to play a game where I imagined that someone had abandoned me in a strange place & I had to find my way back home-I thought I could do it blind, the same way a lost dog might trek a thousand miles to return to its owner, relying on some mysterious instinct that drew the heart back to where it belonged. — Laura McHugh