Insecurity Quotes - Page 8

• Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity,
  Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

  Chi-Ali

  Rap, Maturity, Numbers

  Song: Age Ain't Nothing But A No

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• The first thing I look for is the humor, because you can tell what the character's fears and insecurities are through the humor.

  Lusia Strus

  Character, Looks, Firsts

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• Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Men, Diapers

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• It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

  George Orwell

  Lying, Party, Trying

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing

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• Fearful people are more dependent, more easily manipulated and controlled, more susceptible to deceptively simple, strong, tough measures and hard-line postures. ... They may accept and even welcome repression if it promises to relieve their insecurities.

  George Gerbner

  Strong, Fear, Simple

  Nancy Signorielli, George Gerbner (1988). “Violence and Terror in the Mass Media: An Annotated Bibliography”, p.21, Greenwood Publishing Group

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• A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Lying, Effort, Path

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• May and I are sisters. We'll always fight, but we'll always make up as well. That's what sisters do: we argue, we point out each other's frailties, mistakes, and bad judgment, we flash the insecurities we've had since childhood, and then we come back together. Until the next time.

  Lisa See

  Sister, Mistake, Fighting

  Lisa See (2010). “Shanghai Girls”, p.132, A&C Black

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• Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity, shyness, shame, constraint, but why fear? That was only justifiable when confronted by a real threat: ferocious animals, armed attackers, earthquakes, but not a group of people gathered together in a refectory. But human beings are like that,' she thought. 'We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

  Paulo Coelho

  Girl, Fear, Real

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• For my money, insecurity, depression, etc, can be healed by way of El Morocco, sad songs at 4am, and the pop of a champagne cork

  Elaine Stritch

  Song, Morocco, Way

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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  Larry Hovis

  Actors, Done, Competent

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• I'm a pessimist if I'm not careful, a feminist, a Black,...an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.

  Octavia Butler

  Ambition, Oil And Water, Feminist

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• Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as they really were, with as many inconsistencies as there were hairs on a human head (100,000 to 200,000). Instead, the mind used a lazy shorthand, smoothed the person over into their most dominating characteristic--their pessimism or insecurity (something really being lazy, turning them into either Nice or Mean)--and one made the mistake of judging them from this basis alone and risked, on a subsequent encounter, being dangerously surprised.

  Marisha Pessl

  Dad, Mistake, Nice

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• Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crush, Self, Circles

  "Nightclubs are hell. What's cool or fun about a thumping, sweaty dungeon full of posing idiots?" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2007.

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• It would be so much better if we could share our insecurity, if we could all venture inside ourselves and realize that green beans and vitamin C, however much they nurture us, cannot save lives, or sustain our souls.

  Muriel Barbery

  Soul, Would Be, Green

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, August, 2006.

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• jealously lives with insecurity!

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Jealously

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• Do I really deserve this pleasure? This is American, too-the insecurity about whether we have earned our happiness.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Pleasure, Deserve

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.64, A&C Black

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• This is what I call understanding. If you understand, insecurity is an intrinsic part of life - and good that it is so, because it makes life a freedom, it makes life a continuous surprise. One never knows what is going to happen. It keeps you continuously in wonder. Don't call it uncertainty - call it wonder. Don't call it insecurity - call it freedom.

  Rajneesh

  Life, Understanding, Wonder

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• The only perfect love to be found on earth is not sexual love, which is riddled with hostility and insecurity, but the wordless commitment of families, which takes as its model mother-love. This is not to say that fathers have no place, for father-love, with its driving for self-improvement and discipline, is also essential to survival, but that uncorrected father-love, father-love as it were practiced by both parents, is a way to annihilation.

  Germaine Greer

  Love, Mother, Father

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.26, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I drank to be funny, or sexy. I drank because I was afraid or happy or sad, and I drank for anything that required emotional commitment. ... I had chosen a profession that thrives on insecurity, and is never far from some source of social intercourse that involves alcohol or drugs.

  Lynda Bellingham

  Sexy, Commitment, Emotional

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• The hydrogen bomb is not the answer to the Western peoples' dream of full and final insurance of their security ... While it has increased their striking power it has sharpened their anxiety and deepened their sense of insecurity.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Dream, Military, Hydrogen Bomb

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• When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure.

  Claire Forlani

  Insecure, Thinking, People

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• Love deeply, love without jealousy, love blissfully and help each other to be more meditative.

  Rajneesh

  Deep Love, Helping, Love Jealousy

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• By the time you’ve had a relationship with a horse for a while, there are characteristics in the way the horse behaves with you and around you and responds to you that are directly (related) to some of your traits as a human being…whether it’s insecurity or aggression or fear or hate.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Hate, Way

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• I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider flawless - then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful.

  Taylor Swift

  Beautiful, Names, Issues

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• Low-income people everywhere will be at risk of food insecurity due to loss of assets, absence of alternative livelihood options and lack of adequate insurance coverage from extreme weather events.

  Jacques Diouf

  Loss, Weather, People

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