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EDIE MCCLURG I'm like the general public. I didn't put it together [about the razing] until recently. A little bi...
RICK STEVES Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something is not to your liking, change your l...
RICK STEVES It's important to go with the flow. If you go to a restaurant in Spain at 7 p.m., that's bad news. T...
RICK STEVES Eastern Europe has been really trendy. Prague is the best-preserved city in the region ... and the b...
RICK STEVES Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kil...
JOHN MILTON With self consciousness guilty may turn into regret & self pity. When consciousness bites over guilt...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Inner guilt always bites self consciousness.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
JOHN STERLING Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
PEARL BUCK Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
PEARL BUCK Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
PEARL S. BUCK The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
E.B. (ELWYN BROOKS) WHITE Human self-understanding changes with time, and so also human consciousness deepens.
POPE FRANCIS Your pain is trying to tell you something. It is not an accident, a curse, or an inconvenience. Pain...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of...
DAVID SEDARIS Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for...
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And that'...
ALEC BALDWIN Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively an...
IRIS MURDOCH My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero?
VILLIERS DE L'ISLE-ADAM Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness -- I wouldn't know....
AARON COPLAND Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. ...
AARON COPLAND Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communi...
ELIZABETH HARDWICK The strongest single factor in prosperity consciousness is self-esteem: believing you can do it, bel...
JERRY GILLIES I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
IRA GLASS Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know...
AARON COPLAND Life is at peace when you blindly don't trust on anyone's STATEMENT. We should thank LIFE for this l...
NEHA KOTHARI For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I do have, at different times, a certain kind of self-consciousness in the world, an insecurity.
CHARLIE KAUFMAN it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise.
GEORGE ORWELL In matters of self-control as we shall see again and again, speed kills. But a little friction reall...
DANIEL AKST The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Sinc...
WILLIAM BARRETT When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his per...
ANNE CARSON Get up and do something; don't think about yourself.
MARTY RUBIN One quick glance in the mirror is enough for a lifetime.
MARTY RUBIN A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be...
HAROLD BLOOM Blacksmiths sometimes twist a rope tight around the nose of a horse, and by thus inflicting a little...
DALE CARNEGIE My waist is a 30. The jeans are a 28. When I fart, the Reeboks blow off.
STEVE KLUGER Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all i...
THOMAS MERTON I have heard more about this in the past five years. Even Mr. Ultimate Baptist Rick Warren is workin...
DAVID GOETZ It has not the arrogance of wine, the self- consciousness of coffee, nor the simpering innocence of ...
KAKUZō OKAKURA From the psychological point of view, the self-asserting emotions, derived from emergency reactions,...
ARTHUR KOESTLER Addiction of Narcotics and Addiction of flirt are same,person cant give up Narcotics Addiction neith...
MOHAMEMD ZAKI ANSARI But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of...
NATHAN FILER How you talk to your self will determine how you speak to others.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousnes...
E. L. KONIGSBURG I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass ...
DYLAN MORAN ~ There is an infinite amount of energy within consciousness, stop siphoning the energy through othe...
NICOLE STRANTZ In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and ...
JAMES MARK BALDWIN Passion kills boredom & boredom kills passion.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely.
RUDOLPH RUMMEL When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly he...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL There is a God part in you. The consciousness. The pure Self. Learn to listen the voice of that Powe...
AMIT RAY Giving can be bad karma if it boosts your ego and kills the self esteem of the receiver. Always Give...
SANDEEP GOSWAMY Rick had two red trucks.
DOUG PETERSON This Machine Kills Fascists
WOODY GUTHRIE He had a compression fracture, and so it basically kills the end of the femur, ... So what you have ...
NEIL ROBERTS He who kills with the sword must be killed with the sword
BIBLE To be called a cheater kills me.
ZACH LUND It just kills us that there's no time.
CLINT WRIGHT What would it be like to communicate from a part of your own self that is absolutely free from self-...
ANDREW COHEN Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and livel...
IRIS MURDOCH Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-conscio...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Humanity is completely consumed with the pleasures of the flesh; we have been self-programmed to los...
FELIX WANTANG One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault? Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man...
HUMPHREY BOGART Ruthlessly, in despite of itself, the Enlightenment has extinguished any trace of its own self-consc...
THEODOR W. ADORNO, MAX HORKHEIMER We're quite pleased to have Rick.
MARK AITKEN Rick Perry just doesn't get it,
CHRIS BELL Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very sh...
OSHO I suddenly realize that I'm naked, which shouldn't bother me since it's the phone, but for some reas...
BARRY LYGA Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is becaus...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome
self-consciousness and the fea...
DALE CARNEGIE Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking a...
C.S. LEWIS Ich bin kein Kind, ich bin nicht niedlich; warum soll man so jemanden streicheln?
SIBYLLE BERG Art is a mirror for the sub-conscious.
TYLER J. HEBERT To understand anything is to find in it something which is our own, and it is the discovery of ourse...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any othe...
HUMPHREY BOGART I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James al...
RICK JAMES He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
JOHN MILTON From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-co...
KATE MIDDLETON I’ve come to think that flourishing consists of putting yourself in situations in which you lose s...
DAVID BROOKS The man who kills a man kills a man.
The man who kills himself kills all men.
As far as he...
G.K. CHESTERTON Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills r...
JOHN MILTON Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as rea...
THEODOR ADORNO Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work...
BALTHUS Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and l...
IRIS MURDOCH Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which...
RAY BRADBURY Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last ...
LUCY GREALY Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a goode booke, kills...
JOHN MILTON One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, ...
JEAN ROSTAND One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, on...
JEAN ROSTAND One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, on...
JEAN ROSTAND When you have an open mind and you're flexible....not married to your beliefs, you can see clearly b...
DANA GORE Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their...
HELEN HAYES In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfuln...
DONALD G. MITCHELL If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.
GARY KEITH Gluttony kills more then the sword.
[Gluttony kills more than the sword.]
GEORGE HERBERT Communication is a key strategy, both human communication and technical communication.
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I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."
Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
RICK RIORDAN The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”
The satyrs fell over...
RICK RIORDAN My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
RICK RIORDAN Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
RICK RIORDAN But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"
Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
RICK RIORDAN Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
RICK RIORDAN Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
RICK RIORDAN I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."
Now that we were safely down the mountain...
RICK RIORDAN Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
RICK RIORDAN The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
RICK RIORDAN As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
RICK RIORDAN It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
RICK RIORDAN Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
RICK RIORDAN Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
RICK RIORDAN Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ)
RICK RIORDAN You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
RICK RIORDAN then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo...
RICK RIORDAN There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties...
RICK RIORDAN Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
...
RICK RIORDAN Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
RICK RIORDAN Can’t this thing go any faster?” Thalia demanded.
Zoe glared at her. “I cannot control tr...
RICK RIORDAN Erre es korakas, Blinky!" Dionysus cursed. "I will have your soul!
RICK RIORDAN