Ian Mcewan Quotes

How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

Ian Mcewan

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• The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men
  • Power
  • Help

• If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Live
  • True
  • Knowledge

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • World
  • Real
  • House

• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Better
  • Destiny
  • Self

• I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Technology
  • Politics
  • Self

• I think sci-fi films have become rather bleak, and understandably so - I think we've made some big mistakes globally with how we're developing, and we deal with that guilt by creating these very dystopian futures in films.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Guilt

• I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • True
  • Think

• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Life
  • Long
  • Self

• Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very lucky.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Best
  • Self

• Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Problems
  • Self

• Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Fight
  • Self
  • Survival

• You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Help
  • Society

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Self
  • Ego

• Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

  

  Ovid
  • Difficult
  • Guilt
  • How

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• I'm so happy after such a long struggle to be living my true self. Welcome to the world, Caitlyn. Can't wait for you to get to know her/me.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Long
  • True

• When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • World
  • Mind
  • Free

• I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Future

• Art is not to show people who you are; it is to show people who they are.

  

  Brian McDonald
  • People
  • Art

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power. But it has the support of Scripture and, especially, of our Lord's own words; it has always been held by the Christian Church, and it has the support of reason.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Power
  • Words
  • Support

• How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Self
  • Guilt
  • Rosary