"Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice."

-- Maria Bamford

#Self Quotes #Voice Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“We accept it because we have seen the vision. We know that we cannot reap the harvest, but we hope that we may so well prepare the land and so diligently sow the seed that our successors may gather the ripened grain.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915). “York State Rural Problems”
“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead.”
“Each man has an equal social right to multiply his power of motion by all the social factors of civilization. Private property in any of these factors is inconsistent with this fundamental right; it must, obviously, prove a source of economic despotism and industrial slavery.”
“In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.”

Source : "Fictional character: Waldo Lydecker". "Laura", www.imdb.com. 1944.
“Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.”
“I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right there and drag myself to the ivy.”
“Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.”
“Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.”

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