Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose Bierce
Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by... →
An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.
As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
Buffalo Bill
An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be... →
Augustine Birrell
Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround... →
In our society, the ideal self is bold, gregarious, and comfortable in the spotlight. We like to think that we value individuality, but mostly we... →
Susan Cain
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has... →
Melvin Calvin
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor.
Italo Calvino