Oneself Quotes

I’m a big ‘Goosebumps’ fan – ‘Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.’ My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.

When one first seeks the truth, one separates oneself from it.

He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Our excessive tolerance with regard to suicide is due to the fact that, since the state of mind from which it springs is a general one, we cannot condemn it without condemning ourselves; we are too saturated with it not partly to excuse it.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.

Memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Every country should have at least one King Farouk.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.