self quotes for women

We kill because we are afraid of our own shadow, afraid that if we used a little common sense we'd have to admit that our glorious principles were wrong. ~Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart, 1941



There is no failure. Only feedback. ~Robert Allen



When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. ~Eric Hoffer, Passionate State of Mind, 1955



Doors don't slam open. ~John M. Shanahan, The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)



Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. ~Ralph Nader



Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it. ~Horace



Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius. ~Georges-Louis Leclerc



Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If your horse says no, you either asked the wrong question, or asked the question wrong. ~Pat Parelli



The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ~William Feather



The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. ~George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan



He shaped and molded that office to the contours of his own heroic stature. ~W.J. Cameron



We are half ruined by conformity; but we should be wholly ruined without it. ~Charles Dudley Warner



You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary. ~Paul Johnson, quoted in You Know You're an Arizona Native, When... compiled by Don Dedera, 1993



Our minds are lazier than our bodies. ~Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678



Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. ~Orison Swett Marden



Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown



He showed that fame may be won and what services be rendered by a plain son of the people unaided by any gifts of fortune. ~James Bryce



Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ~Albert Einstein



I hate it. It looks like a stickup at 7-Eleven. Five guys standing there with their hands in the air. ~Norm Sloan, on zone defense