I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.
~By Fritz Hollings ~
I don't think I ever worked harder at any match during my career to get runs as I did then, nor did I ever have to face in one game such consistently fast bowlers as the Australian pair, Gregory and McDonald.
~By Frank Woolley ~
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
With the increasing demand for oil around the world and the rising costs in Oregon and throughout the nation, we must focus on the development of alternate energy sources, especially those that are clean, efficient and renewable.
~By Greg Walden ~
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.
~By Claire McCaskill ~
Each Warrior wants to leave the mark of his will, his signature, on important acts he touches. This is not the voice of ego but of the human spirit, rising up and declaring that it has something to contribute to the solution of the hardest problems, no matter how vexing!
~By Pat Riley ~
For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.
~By Erwin Schrodinger ~
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.
~By Leonard Nimoy ~
A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.
~By Muhammed Iqbal ~
I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.
~By Roger Ebert ~
My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me.
~By John Thorn ~
It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were.
~By Avrum Stroll ~
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
~By Frida Kahlo ~
In 1938, when I had decided that the only way to see the country was in a trailer, and I built the trailer which I still have and lived in it for eighteen months, and learned America from San Diego to the Canadian border, from Miami to New Jersey, and east to west in between.
~By Leslie Charteris ~
We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.
~By Robert Mugabe ~
Either we're going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border.
~By Tom Metzger ~
The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.
~By Alan Watts ~
Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.
~By Penelope Keith ~
An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.
~By Tom Lehrer ~
Darwin (1859) recognized the fact that paleontology then seemed to provide evidence against rather for evolution in general or the gradual origin of taxonomic categories in particular.
~By George G. Simpson ~
When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.
~By Larry Dixon ~
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
~By Manuel Puig ~
Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
~By Karl Radek ~
Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
~By Amy Adams ~
I think that ego-driven leaders will be a thing of the past because the masses are tired.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.
~By Brian Koslow ~
The truth is, no matter how trying they become, babies two and under don't have the ability to make moral choices, so they can't be bad. That category only exists in the adult mind.
~By Anne Cassidy ~
I hate to be categorized.
~By Martin C. Smith ~
I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.
~By Whitney Houston ~
The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.
~By Philip Wylie ~
People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
We're all negotiators.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
~By Ruth Hubbard ~
I try not to have too much of an ego. I'll do anything.
~By Rob Schneider ~
You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.
~By Damon Albarn ~
Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.
~By Donald Rumsfeld ~
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.
~By Rutger Hauer ~
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
~By Allen Klein ~
Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine.
~By John Shirley ~
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
In America, music is more tightly categorized.
~By Ednita Nazario ~
I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'
~By David O. Russell ~
The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.
~By Will Durant ~
If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
~By Arnold Bennett ~
This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.
~By Kristen Bell ~
And for every project, because it takes years, you can see the early drawings and collages as just a simple, vague idea, and through the years and through the negotiations of getting the permit, you see that every detail is now clarified.
~By Christo ~
I wrote The Same Sea not as a political allegory about Israelis and Palestinians. I wrote it about something much more gutsy and immediate. I wrote it as a piece of chamber music.
~By Amos Oz ~
We negotiated with the Honduran government the establishment of a regional military training center, for training central American forces, but the primary motivation for doing that was to be able to bolster the quality, improve the quality of the El Salvadoran fighting forces.
~By John Negroponte ~
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
~By Dean Acheson ~
The past nine years in San Diego have represented such a period of questioning.
~By Brian Ferneyhough ~
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.
~By Chris Lowe ~
We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
~By Jack Irons ~
It's learning how to negotiate to keep both sides happy - whether it's for a multi-million dollar contract or just which show to watch on TV, that determines the quality and enjoyment of our lives.
~By Leigh Steinberg ~
The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
~By Francis Parkman ~
What we're doing is making sure that we have a safe and secure border region from San Diego all the way to Brownsville. And that means manpower, it means technology, it means infrastructure, it means interior enforcement. All, you know, kind of layered in appropriate ways, and making sure, like I said before, the border is safe and secure.
~By Janet Napolitano ~
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
~By Ann Druyan ~
Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
~By Mohsen Makhmalbaf ~
Show business is one of the few businesses that the devil will actually agree to own just a portion of your soul because he knows if you have a performer's ego you were probably working for him all along.
~By Marc Maron ~
Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.
~By Dean Acheson ~
Intelligence is a moral category.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.
~By William Kennedy ~
A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.
~By Matthew Barney ~
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
~By Tom Hiddleston ~
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
~By Laura Nyro ~
My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness.
~By Thomas Kyd ~
Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.
~By George Santayana ~
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
~By Alexander Solzehnitsyn ~
One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.
~By Richard Leakey ~
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
~By Trip Hawkins ~
Nations have their ego, just like individuals.
~By James Joyce ~
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
As far as the sovereignty of Bosnia-Hercegovina is concerned we agreed to have limited sovereignty for a limited time and that is clear from the Dayton Agreement.
~By Alija Izetbegovic ~
War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
I was stationed at a marine recruit depot in San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
~By R. Lee Ermey ~
Because someone stole Gregory Peck's star on Hollywood Blvd., I have hired a Brink's guard to protect my star!
~By Rip Taylor ~
There is only so much negotiating and maneuvering that can be done while the aircraft is under siege in mid-air. Therefore, the best way to put a stop to hijacking is by having high levels of security implemented by qualified and trained personnel both on the ground and in the air.
~By Isaac Yeffet ~
Gentlemen, start your egos.
~By Billy Crystal ~
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
~By Barbara Stanwyck ~
I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
At awards time, The Exorcist was nominated in 11 categories, everybody but the janitor was up for an Oscar. There was no category for what I did.
~By Mercedes McCambridge ~
Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.
~By Dorothy Allison ~
I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
~By Siegfried Sassoon ~
Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
~By George G. Simpson ~
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