Nathaniel Branden Quotes

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

Nathaniel Branden

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• I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Regret

• Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Reality
  • Political
  • Color

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hope
  • Joy
  • Failure

• I take care of myself and take antioxidating supplements suggested by my best friend and first fan - he takes care of my Internet presence - Doctor Mario Rosario Porzio. I eat well - in fact, very well.

  

  Ornella Muti
  • Friend
  • Myself
  • Best

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• That's pretty much who I am. I like to get riled up. I feel like it brings the best out of me and the other guys.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Best
  • Riled

• Athletes at all ages are bigger and stronger than ever before. And they are being encouraged - sometimes even incentivized, as we recently learned was the case on at least one National Football League team - to play to injure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Team
  • Football
  • Stronger

• I've done it all.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done

• It's what every writer needs: a daybed.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Needs
  • Writer
  • Every

• I was in the streets at eight, nine years old.

  

  Young Thug
  • Years
  • Old
  • Streets

• My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• If you believe the people who love you, you get lazy. And if you believe the people who hate you, you become... maybe intimidated, or whatever the word might be, and you don't write as well.

  

  Dan Brown
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Something
  • Only
  • Originality

• To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Night
  • Stop

• I've been hearing fiddle music since I was in the womb, I'm sure.

  

  Natalie MacMaster
  • Music
  • Sure
  • Hearing

• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Day
  • End
  • Motivated

• Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Pain

• Nell: Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.Nagg: Oh?Nell: Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • World
  • Funny
  • Beginning

• Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Money
  • Law
  • Government

• I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Love
  • Road
  • Husband

• '72 Virgins' is very suspicious to me. It's a clue. It tells you we're dealing with people from a bartering culture. Because nobody starts with that number; somebody said, '100 virgins!' '50!' '85!' '69!' '79!' '71!' '73!' '72!' 'Done!' That's how you got 72.

  

  Bill Maher
  • People
  • Done
  • Culture

• Gain confidence and you banish fear.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Art
  • Fear
  • Confidence

• It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

  

  Nathaniel Branden