Save Yourself Quotes - Page 2

• Never ask anyone if you should do something, if ultimately you are afraid to do it. You'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Women, Trouble, Should

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• You want to be an alchemist so badly? Don't wait to react to the immediate problem. Plan ahead. Look at the big picture and you won't ever have to deal with that problem. Better to save yourself from a major catastrophe than drag your feet over a bunch of little inconveniences.

  Richelle Mead

  Feet, Waiting, Alchemist

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.74, Penguin

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• Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Ifs

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• 'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will save yourself a lot of trouble.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Art, Crazy, Law

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• Is Jesus a Saviour who saves you, or is he an assistant who helps you save yourself?

  Darrin Patrick

  Jesus, Assistants, Helping

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• Exercising leadership is an expression of your aliveness... But when you cover yourself up, you risk losing something as well. In the struggle to save yourself, you can give up too many of those qualities that are the essence of being alive, like innocence, curiosity, and compassion.

  Ronald A. Heifetz

  Giving Up, Struggle, Exercise

  Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky (2013). “Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the Dangers of Leading”, p.119, Harvard Business Press

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• Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself.

  Lawrence Tierney

  Sea, Boards, Hey

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• The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.

  David Bowie

  Technology, Progress, May

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• What women need to understand is that you cannot save a child if you can't save yourself.

  Suze Orman

  Children, Needs, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Eye, Science, Diagnosis

  Samuel Hopkins Adams (1912). “The Great American fraud”

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• If you can convince yourself that you look fabulous, you can save yourself the trouble of primping.

  Andy Warhol

  Looks, Fabulous, Trouble

  Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett (1988). “Andy Warhol's party book”, Crown Pub

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• The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Loyalty, Fall, Two

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of hell, and get a kid to start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and use your imagination.

  Roger Ebert

  Kids, Eye, Imagination

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.375, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Never listen to a phone call that isn't meant for you. Never read a letter that isn't meant for you. Never pay attention to a comment that isn't meant for you. Never violate people's privacy. You will save yourself a lot of anguish.

  Edward Kennedy

  Phones, People, Advice

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• If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Happiness, Survival, Routine

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• When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.

  Sarah Dessen

  Heart, Able, Faces

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.83, Penguin

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• Well, Lord Debonair and Lady Lethal, if we can have a minute of your time, we do have a psycho to hunt. (Allen) (Jess glared over his shoulder at Allen, but before he could comment, Syra shot another bolt from her crossbow. Allen went flying and landed flat on his back in the snow. Syra walked over to him and stared down.) I don’t particularly like Squires and I really hate the Blood Rites. So save yourself some pain and don’t speak to me again. (Syra)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Pain, Hate, Blood

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.193, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Nobody wanted your dance, Nobody wanted your strange glitter, your floundering Drowning life and your effort to save yourself, Treading water, dancing the dark turmoil, Looking for something to give.

  Ted Hughes

  Dark, Giving, Dancing

  Ted Hughes (2009). “Birthday Letters”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• If you ask a living teacher a question, he will probably answer you. If you are puzzled by what he says, you can save yourself the trouble of thinking by asking him what he means. If, however, you ask a book a question, you must answer it yourself. In this respect a book is like nature or the world. When you question it, it answers you only to the extent that you do the work of thinking an analysis yourself.

  Mortimer Adler

  Teacher, Book, Mean

  Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren (2014). “How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Don’t.” I walked up to him. “If it ever comes down to a situation between me and you, save yourself. I’m not worth dying for.” “Princess, I-” “None of us are,” I said, looking at him seriously. “Not the Queen or any of the Markis or Marksinna. That’s a direct order from the Princess, and you have to follow it. Save yourself.” “I don’t understand.” Duncan’s whole face scrunched in confusion. “But… if it’s as you wish, Princess.” “It is. Thank you,” I smiled at him and walked into the palace.

  Amanda Hocking

  Queens, Princess, Order

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• I've never had something - like, you know, drunk people have tried to do that to me, and I instantly shut it off. I say, don't to this, dude; you'll feel terrible about this later. It'll be - I'll bring it up all the time; I'll make fun of you. Just save yourself the embarrassment and don't do it.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, People, Drunk

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

  John R. Rice

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Inability

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• System: Save yourself time, energy and money.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Energy

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• Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Mean, Thinking

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• We can only grasp the gospel's sweetness if we first grapple with its offense- you can't save yourself.

  Timothy Keller

  Firsts, Sweetness, Offense

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