Selfserving Quotes & Sayings

My best advice for
you, honey, is to stop if you possibly can! And if you just can't, then get ready to work
like hell. Hang onto your day job. And remember, you may not make a living, but you'll
make a wonderful life. — Doris Betts

But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. — Alan Watts

We have to remember that the experience of gangsta rap as such in its foundation is an anti-systemic experience primarily. And it is an anti-systemic experience that is not in some cases politicized, but in general results in a much more transgressive, much more uncomfortable music for the structures of power, than conscious rap or political rap. — Bocafloja

I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading. — Haruki Murakami

It is very easy to get ridiculously confused about the tenses of time travel, but most things can be resolved by a sufficiently large ego. — Terry Pratchett

Sun, rain, snow, wind. Every day is a good day to be present. — Sue Leaf

They say you are not you except in terms of relation to other people. If there weren't any other people there wouldn't be any you because what you do, which is what you are, only has meaning in relation to other people. — Robert Penn Warren

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight. — Mignon McLaughlin

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on. — John Lewis