#ego

I love playing ego and insecurity combined. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#ego #i #i love #insecurity #love

What's the difference between my wife and a terrorist? You can negotiate with a terrorist. ↗

— Frank Carson

#difference #negotiate #terrorist #wife #you

Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#americas #area #canada #climate #countries

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#cosmos #distant #ego #may #more

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history – true or feigned– with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#books #literature #experience

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category. ↗

— Faye Wattleton

#commentaries #felt #fit #had #i

Democrats believe we must have comprehensive health care reform that includes giving the federal government authority to negotiate lower prices with drug companies. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#believe #care #companies #comprehensive #democrats

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are. ↗

— David Cone

#amount #arrogance #better #career #certain

With one decision, Judge Sotomayor changed the entire dispute. Her ruling rescued the 1995 baseball season and forced the parties to resume real negotiations. ↗

— David Cone

#changed #decision #dispute #entire #forced

The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives. ↗

— Salvatore J. Cordileone

#categorized #chemicals #earthly #good #illegal