"To be sick and helpless is a humiliating experience. Prolonged illness also carries the hazard of narcissistic self-absorption."

-- Richard Hofstadter

#Self Quotes #Sick Quotes #Narcissistic Quotes

“Guys constantly talk about pornography in two ways: as revenge and as reassurance. When you live in a world in which beautiful, sexy women are all around you, in the same classes, on the same athletic field, competing for the same jobs, then the pornographic world - the world in which women thrill to male sexual desire - reassures men that although they may feel "one down," they're still entitled to women's bodies.”

Source : "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Q&A, www.today.com. August 26, 2008.
“We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way - an agreement that holds through our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language.”

Source : "Science and Linguistics" (1946)
“There's the really angry drunk, who's just annoying to be around. I prefer the drunk who falls all over the place and is being completely inappropriate. Or the super-loud, happy drunk, which is evidentially what I am.”
“We are products not of our technologies, but of our choices about how to use them.”
“When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails. But nations without great military power face the opposite danger: When you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like nails.”
“A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)”
“You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.”

Source : Ford Madox Ford (1964). “Parade's End: A man could stand up”
“Being a wine enthusiast means you care more about quality than quantity.”

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