Virginia Woolf Quotes

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

Virginia Woolf

• Protect
• Ridiculous
• Oneself
• Idolatry

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• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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• I'm a jeans fanatic. It's ridiculous how many jeans I have.

  

  Victoria Justice
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• I love 'Glee' so much. It just works - it's on the edge of ridiculous.

  

  Adam Garcia
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• I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
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• As taxpayers, we pay our elected officials to serve the people and protect our state and our interests.

  

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky
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• If you don't move to protect copyright, if you don't move to protect our children, it's not going to sit well.

  

  Barbara Boxer
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• What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
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• I would disagree that America is any more racist or ridiculous than anywhere else.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • America
  • More
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• There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
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• The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous - absolutely ridiculous - restrictions on everything that they can do.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
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  • Kids
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• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Love
  • Two
  • Protect

• We protect aspirin bottles in this country better than we protect guns from accidents by children.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Country
  • Children
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• We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, but it's not usually that way. Love is something deeper and purer.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Man
  • Rap
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• But God is the God of our yesterdays, and He allows the memory of them to turn the past into a ministry of spiritual growth for our future. God reminds us of the past to protect us from a very shallow security in the present.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Future
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• The MMI brothers, who provided security for Malcolm X had been trained by Malcolm himself that inside of the Nation of Islam, whenever there is a diversion, you protect the principal. The principal, in this case Malcolm, clearly was not protected on February 21st [1965].

  

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  • Brother
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• [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Truth
  • Knowledge
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• Patience protects you from deception

  

  A. R. Bernard
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• We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • World
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• You were put here to protect us. But who protects us from you?

  

  Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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  • Rap
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• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
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• We exploded after a while and made a lot of horrendously stupid mistakes.

  

  Chris Stein Blondie
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes
  • Exploded

• The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Truth
  • Race
  • Development

• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

  

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  • Soul
  • Hate
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• It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Protect
  • Ridiculous
  • Oneself