Rollo May Quotes

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
  • New
  • New York
  • Week

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Too Much

• I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kind

• The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Body
  • Movies

• You want your partner to objectify you.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Want
  • You
  • Partner

• For all of its uncertainty, we cannot flee the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Future
  • Cannot
  • Uncertainty

• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Perfect
  • Humility

• When I get on a plane, I kiss the plane and I tap it three times. If I don't do it... I have to do it. One time I sat in my seat and I had to get back up to touch the plane.

  

  Jana Kramer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kiss

• I am in a constant cycle of selling my clothes at Wasteland and buying from Goodwill. Once or twice a year, I go through my closet and donate everything to Goodwill. It feels like I am recycling my fashion.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Fashion

• Employ every economy consistent with thoroughness, accuracy and reliability.

  

  Arthur C. Nielsen
  • Economy
  • Accuracy
  • Reliability

• I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence.

  

  Phillip Noyce
  • People
  • Fence

• In my time since moving to the United States, I've found that there is a dearth of great writing for black people. There are stories that depict us in a way that isn't cliched or niche, and that a white person, a Chinese person, an Indian person can watch and relate to. Those are the stories I want to be a part of telling.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The first piece of 'long' fiction I wrote was a novella parody of Stephen King's 'Christine.' I was in high school, and my version was about a kid with a possessed locker instead of a possessed car. It was also my first attempt at humour, which fell completely flat because no one who read it realized it was a parody!

  

  Kelley Armstrong
  • Long
  • School
  • High

• One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • Value
  • Judging

• I don't want someone to watch sports in bed. That drives me nuts.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Sports

• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.

  

  Philip Zimbardo
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• It's important to say that it's not just men that can be man-children. Women can be grown-up women and still have the playfulness of people who are younger.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• I remember being with my mum eating marmalade on toast watching 'Inspector Gadget,' 'Sharky and George,' 'The Pink Panther,' and 'Thundercats,' stuff like that. Those were the days - no idea how brutal the world is.

  

  Joe Gilgun
  • World
  • Remember
  • Pink

• At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy.

  

  Leon Bourgeois
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Mercy

• When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution... Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.

  

  Paul Virilio
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Progress

• Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

  

  Rollo May
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Findings