Quotes for All
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it’s different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they’re very cocky. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration. G. D. H. Cole
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. Evelyn Waugh
The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law. Euripides
Well-being is possible to the degree to which one has overcome one’s narcissism; to the degree to which one is open, responsive, sensitive, awake, empty…. Well-being means, finally, to drop one’s Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one’s self in … Read more
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man’s efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter. … Read more
You have to realize there is nothing more you can do to convince someone you love to turn their life around. You simply have to say, \”Look. I love you, but I cannot stand by and watch you kill yourself slowly. When you want help I’m here. Until then, goodbye.\” That may sound cruel, but … Read more
I am no lover of pompous title, but only desire that my name may be recorded in a line or two, which shall briefly express my name, my virginity, the years of my reign, the reformation of religion under it, and my preservation of peace. Elizabeth I
When I read the article [in The New Yorker] by David Grann, I was very struck by people responding to the article, of people thinking I was such a hero and what a wonderful person I was, and I didn’t feel that at all. I felt like I had very much, like Todd [Willingham], taken … Read more
If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact. Elizabeth Gilbert