Selfappointed Quotes & Sayings

Identity and self-belief: a courage that swells from within, borne of waters drunk deeply. — Fennel Hudson

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work. — David Sedaris

The Romans dominated Egypt for four hundred years, from the time of Augustus (30 BC to 395 AD). — Michael Tsarion

Well, talking about Ethiopia is like talking about the whole continent. A month ago we played against AIDS and famine. We also played in Dakar. It is not only the music which is playing an important role on this issue of problems affecting Africa, but the activities of doctors, sportsmen and journalists are also helping in various ways. — Manu Dibango

We are not a club or a Sunday school class, but a school of the woods. — Baden Powell De Aquino

After about six months, I told my mother that I wanted the lessons to stop, and she was intelligent enough not to force me to continue. Besides, the lessons cost money, which was anything but abundant in our household. — Georg Solti

The answer is, be positive in spite of what you have or what's happening. That's how to be happy. — Lawrence Crane

There is no means by which anyone can evade his personal responsibility. Whoever neglects to examine to the best of his abilities all the problems involved voluntarily surrenders his birthright to a selfappointed elite of supermen. In such vital matters blind reliance upon 'experts' and uncritical acceptance of popular catchwords and prejudices is tantamount to the abandonment of self-determination and to yielding to other people's domination. As conditions are today, nothing can be more important to every intelligent man than economics. His own fate and that of his progeny are at stake. — Ludwig Von Mises

The mind is a muscle. — Robert Wilson

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred. — V.S. Naipaul

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man. — Robert A. Heinlein

The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. — James Madison