Selfie Culture Quotes & Sayings

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. — Michel De Montaigne

You must endure what is painful to secure that which is profitable. — Publilius Syrus

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne

A false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The more a mind thinks upon something, the deeper it will take root and affect all subsequent and related thought. — A.J. Darkholme

There will always be romance in the world so long as there are young hearts in it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

I want all this loud profanity in the street stopped. I want people to think about choices. — Bill Cosby

Ready for a selfie, m'lady? — Danika Stone

Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing and crap out twelve-karat-gold nuggets before breakfast each morning while kissing your selfie-ready spouse and two and a half kids goodbye. Then fly your helicopter to your wonderfully fulfilling job, where you spend your days doing incredibly meaningful work that's likely to save the planet one day. — Mark Manson

If anything, if you can get somebody interested in something and get them excited, that's great. You should be praised for having opened the debate and having asked the right questions. — Oliver Stone

There were some folks - usually women - who claimed the smile that graced his sensuous lips when those fists connected with another man's flesh was enough to make any woman — Liliana Hart

I'm envious of people who can sleep as long as they want. I have the circadian rhythm of a farmer. — Moby

If I didn't hold back for my parents' sake, I would've quit ages ago. — Franz Kafka

I can't bear it that some man, even with a lofty heart and the highest mind, should start from the ideal of the Madonna and end with the ideal of Sodom. It's even more fearful when someone who already has the ideal of Sodom in his soul does not deny the ideal of the Madonna either, and his hear burns with it, verily, verily burns, as in his young, blameless years. No, man is broad, even too broad, I would narrow him down. Devil knows even what to make of him, that's the thing! What's shame for the mind is beauty all over for the heart. Can there be beauty in Sodom? Believe me, for the vast majority of people, that's just where beauty lies
did you know that secret? The terrible thing is that beauty is not only fearful but also mysterious. Here the devil is struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart. But, anyway, why kick against the pricks? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Every time I'm recognized in public, I'm super grateful and appreciative, but I also get hot and nervous. — Issa Rae

Who knew, in 2000, that 'compassionate conservatism' meant bigger government, unrestricted government spending, government intrusion in personal matters, government ineptitude, and cronyism in disaster relief? Who knew, in 2000, that the only bill the president would veto, six years later, would be one on funding stem-cell research? A more accurate term for Mr. Bush's political philosophy might be incontinent conservatism. — Christopher Buckley

The only problem with my dreams is the practical side, otherwise it is perfect. — M.F. Moonzajer