Indulge Quotes - Page 6

• Despite the immense challenges that we have faced and continue to face, we refuse to indulge in negativity or pessimism.
  We are an organization that believes in empowering people to be their best.

  Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

  Inspirational, Encouragement, Business

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• My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals.

  Booth Tarkington

  Believe, Book, Home

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• Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.

  William Graham Sumner

  Hygiene, Organization, Indulge In

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.40, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood which I felt I had to control, otherwise I might end up in the loony bin. But when I made my way in the world I wanted to indulge myself in my fantasies to the extent that I could afford.

  George Soros

  Childhood, World, Might

  "Underwriting Democracy: Encouraging Free Enterpirse And Democratic Reform Among The Soviets In Eastern Europe". Book by George Soros, 1991.

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• Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.

  George Eliot

  Mistake, Mean, Errors

  'Scenes of Clerical Life' (1858) 'Janet's Repentance' ch. 25

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• Foolish, ignorant people indulge in careless lives, whereas a clever man guards his attention as his most precious possession.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Men

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• I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I was able to escape responsibility, to indulge fully my selfish desire to let my ego flourish unfettered, not obliged to anyone. But this wasn't freedom. It was a prison-a cell separating me from those who cared for me and for whom I might have cared.

  Eric G. Wilson

  Depression, Selfish, Responsibility

  Eric G. Wilson (2012). “Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck: Why We Can't Look Away”, p.128, Sarah Crichton Books

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• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in
  the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to
  know what we do not know.

  Plato

  Indulge In, Use, Fancy

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• As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

  Frederic Chopin

  Eye, May, Through My Eyes

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.89, Courier Corporation

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• Why should we desire the destruction of human passions? Take passions from human beings and what is left? The great object should be not to destroy passions, but to make them obedient to the intellect. To indulge passion to the utmost is one form of intemperance - to destroy passion is another. The reasonable gratification of passion under the domination of the intellect is true wisdom and perfect virtue.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Passion, Perfect, Desire

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1993). “Reason, Tolerance, and Christianity: The Ingersoll Debates”

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• When you think about it, when you're single you are not deprived in any way - if anything, it's a pretty self-indulgent lifestyle. It's selfish: You can make your own decisions and indulge yourself on an impulse.

  Renee Zellweger

  Selfish, Thinking, Decision

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• To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Imagination, Solitude

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• What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?

  Jacqueline Carey

  Kids, Now And Then, Ifs

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• … the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

  Chaim Potok

  Long, World, Grows

  Chaim Potok (2009). “My Name Is Asher Lev”, p.255, Anchor

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• There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Likes, Rage, Should

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• To get the best out of life here ...Good grief. There's plenty of it about, so indulge. Give yourself some thing to remember. Fall in love. Fall out of love. Gamble. Get drunk. See how long you can stay awake. Go for long walks at night. Discover what you're afraid of doing, and then do it.

  Philip Pullman

  Falling In Love, Grief, Night

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• Princess,” he whispered against her ear. “My beautiful, beautiful princess. I want to spoil you. Pamper you. Indulge you.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Beautiful, Princess, Ears

  Teresa Medeiros (2013). “A Whisper of Roses”, p.389, Amber House Books

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• The times are too difficult and the crisis too severe to indulge in schadenfreude. Looking at it in perspective, the fact that there would be a financial crisis was perfectly predictable: its general nature, if not its magnitude. Markets are always inefficient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Indulge In, Perspective, Would Be

  "The United States Has Essentially a One-Party System". Interview with Gabor Steingart, www.spiegel.de. October 10, 2008.

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• When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

  David Levithan

  Rip, Indulge In, Ifs

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.25, Egmont UK

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• He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul.

  Horace Walpole

  Taken, Soul, Melancholy

  Horace Walpole (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace Walpole (Illustrated)”, p.96, Delphi Classics

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• God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It's not so we can find more ways to spend it. It's not so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children. It's not so we can insulate ourselves from needing God's provision. It's so we can give and give generously (2 Corinthians 8:14; 9:11)

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Giving, Needs

  Randy Alcorn (2012). “The Treasure Principle, Revised and Updated: Unlocking the Secret of Joyful Giving”, p.78, Multnomah

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• Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

  Antoine Lavoisier

  Self Confidence, Science, Imagination

  Antoine Lavoisier (2011). “Elements of Chemistry”, Courier Corporation

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• ...if you wish to get pure air into your room, or if you go for a walk in the fresh air, think of the pure and of the unclean heart. Many of us like to have pure air in the room (and this is an excellent habit), or are fond of walking in the fresh air, but they do not even think of the necessity of the purity of the spirit or heart (of, so to say, spiritual air, the breath of life); and, living in the fresh air, they allow themselves to indulge in impure thoughts, impure movements of the heart, and even impurity of language, and most impure carnal actions.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

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• That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.

  Toby Stephens

  Children, Naughty, Grandparent

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

  Julianna Baggott

  Love Is, Indulge In, Luxury

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