Insecure Quotes - Page 18

• Wise men are not pacifists; they are merely less likely to jump up and retaliate against their antagonizers. They know that needless antagonizers are virtually already insecure enough.

  Criss Jami

  Wise, Patience, Men

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.92, Criss Jami

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• Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation.

  Criss Jami

  Heart, Love Is, Media

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

  Stacy London

  Fashion, Thinking, Feelings

  "The Dr. Drew Show", edition.cnn.com. October 16, 2012.

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• With respect to duels, indeed, I have my own ideas. Few things in this so surprising world strike me with more surprise. Two little visual spectra of men, hovering with insecure enough cohesion in the midst of the unfathomable, and to dissolve therein, at any rate, very soon, make pause at the distance of twelve paces asunder; whirl around, and simultaneously by the cunningest mechanism, explode one another into dissolution; and, offhand, become air, and non-extant--the little spitfires!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Distance, Men, Ideas

  Thomas Carlyle (2015). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh”, p.161, The Floating Press

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• I completely bombed the audition... I was insecure, stopping and starting. I went to the bathroom and cried.

  Lake Bell

  Stopping, Auditions, Bathroom

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

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• Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the demanding and threatening elements in their constituencies. The decisive consideration is not whether the proposition is good but whether it is popular -- not whether it will work well and prove itself but whether the active talking constituents like it immediately. Politicians rationalize this servitude by saying that in a democracy public men are the servants of the people.

  Walter Lippmann

  Successful, Men, Talking

  "Essays in the Public Philosophy". Book by Walter Lippmann, 1955.

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• It's not hard to feel afraid and insecure. I still fight an inner-critic voice, definitely. I hear it a lot.

  Alanis Morissette

  Fighting, Voice, Critics

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think that when a person is insecure about who they are or who they want to be, then it translates on screen, and the choices they make are all about perception.

  Mila Kunis

  Thinking, Choices, Perception

  Interview with James Franco, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2012.

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• "The Diagnosis" is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...

  Alan Lightman

  Book, Thinking, Years

  Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. November 16, 2000.

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• ...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

  Haruki Murakami

  Feelings, Trying, World

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• A lot of men these days are insecure in front of women, because women have become so strong. Men are very frustrated because they don't know what women want.

  Pernille Fischer Christensen

  Strong, Men, Frustrated

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• No matter how safe and lovely your harbour is, leave it to see the insecure and the ugly one; only then you can reach the truth!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lovely, Matter, Ugly

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• In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.

  Sue Johnson

  Partners, Disguise, Vulnerability

  Sue Johnson, Kenneth Sanderfer (2016). “Created for Connection: The "Hold Me Tight" Guide for Christian Couples”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can get enough love. They grow jealous of our work and come to regard it as a rival. These people can destroy you, so kick them out of your life or don't admit them in the first place.

  Florence King

  Jealous, Self, People

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• I grew up in a financially insecure place because I knew that my parents were following their dreams which has pros and cons. It was actually my mom who encouraged me to go to acting school because I was really afraid to put all my eggs in that basket.

  Zoe Lister-Jones

  Mom, Dream, School

  "Zoe Lister-Jones Talks LOLA VERSUS, Her Ambitions to Direct and Write a Novel, and Her Next Film MOTHERFUCKER". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 7, 2012.

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• The security of computers and the Internet is a horrible and dangerous mess. Every week we hear about breaches of databases of Social Security numbers and financial information and health records, and about critical infrastructure being insecure.

  Matt Blaze

  Numbers, Records, Information

  Source: www.politico.com

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• What encryption lets us do is say, "Yes, the Internet is insecure." Bad guys are able to compromise computers everywhere, but we're able to tolerate that because if they do intercept our messages, they can't do any harm with it.

  Matt Blaze

  Guy, Encryption, Able

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

  Sally Phillips

  Dvds, Language, Film

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• [Wearing padding to make my breasts look larger for a movie] was great, but it also made me think, you know, a lot of women who go out and get implants, what's so insecure about them that they would rather have someone look there than in their eyes?

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Eye, Thinking, Looks

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• World class is a phrase used by provincial cities and second-rate entertainment events, as well as a wide variety of insecure individuals, to assert that they are not provincial or second-rate, thereby confirming that they are.

  John Ralston Saul

  Class, Cities, Entertainment

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Why is McDonalds still counting? How insecure is this company? 40 million, 80 billion million jillion killion tillion... who cares? Is anyone really impressed by that any more? Ooh, 89 billion sold? All right, I'll have one! I'm satisfied! I'd like to tell the CEO of McDonalds, "Look. We all get it, okay? You've sold a lot of hamburgers. Whatever the number is, just put up a sign, 'McDonalds: We're Doing Very Well.' We are tired of hearing about every goddamn one of them."

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Tired, Numbers, Mcdonalds

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

  Michael Botticelli

  Drinking, Kids, Way

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Just as we're always told that schoolyard bullies are actually deeply insecure, liberals rationalize their own ferocious behavior by claiming to have been wounded somehow. What about the little guy our poor, insecure bully is beating the living daylights out of? How's his self-esteem coming along? That is the essence of liberals: They viciously attack everyone else, while wailing that they are the victims.

  Ann Coulter

  Self Esteem, Essence, Bully

  "Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America". Book by Ann Coulter, www.today.com. January 6, 2009.

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• The feelings that we equate with love-feeling sick, feeling insecure, not eating-that's just lust getting in the way. It's your ego saying, 'I want to get laid' and 'I hope she likes me more than I like her.' Love is something that should be there in 20 years' time.

  Simon Cowell

  Love Is, Years, Sick

  "He Said, She Said: Celebs on Love". www.elle.com. February 13, 2012.

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• For over 200 years this has been a special country. A unique place where anyone from anywhere can achieve anything. But now millions of Americans feel like they're being left behind. Insecure in their future and unsafe in the face of terrorism.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Unique, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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