Self Deprecation Praise Self Quotes & Sayings

While a forgery illegally exploits the elitist taste for rarity, a kitsch object insists on its anti elitist availability. The deceptive character of kitsch does not lie in whatever it may have in common with actual forgery but in its claim to supply its consumers with essentially the same kinds and qualities of beauty as those embodied in unique or rare and inaccessible originals. — Matei Calinescu

Canadians are the people who learned to live without the bold accents of the natural ego-trippers of other lands. — Marshall McLuhan

I love Between shades of gray — Ruta Sepetys

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. — Samuel Johnson

One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism into a wider and more wonderful world, was my growing conviction that my fellow atheists were shallow, men without insight into real human nature. — John C. Wright

Poorly written novels
no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters
are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. — Flannery O'Connor

What you said before," she asked. "That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you've ever known except someone - you never finished the sentence. Who was it?"
"I was going to say you and me and Will," he said. "But - that's rather a strange thing to say, isn't it?"
"Not strange at all." She cuddled in close against his side. "Exactly right. Ever and always, exactly right. — Cassandra Clare

He wasn't, but producers are by definition annoying because they have a different agenda from you. They're trying to stop you spending money and you're trying to not spend money, but at the same time we're great artists. — Michael Apted

I believe actual violence scars children much more than violence in storybooks. — Robert Paul Weston

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack. — Sun Tzu

No one rules if no one obeys — David Icke

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it. — Greg Cootsona

Just because you have the capacity to do something doesn't mean you have to do it. Management, organization, speaking and traveling: you must ask not only what fruit they bring to the world, but what fruit they yield on the inside of your life and your heart. I — Shauna Niequist

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. — Gary Zukav