I think it means someone is so selfish they don't care they enough to even pay attention
Burt Reynolds takes 3 guys, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronnie Cox canoeing down a river to test themselves against the wilderness ( or so it says on the video blurb!) They discover a backwoods world filled with hillbilly cut-throats and teeming with violence. (QUOTE)
The quote "The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude" is attributed to Oprah Winfrey. While the exact date of this statement is not specified, it reflects her lifelong philosophy of empowerment and personal growth, which she has shared throughout her career in media and public speaking, particularly since the 1980s.
An exact quote would be...a quote, basically, with nothing edited, as in a quote.
An embedded quote is simply a quote that flows naturally within your own writing and is not just "dropped in" for its own sake.
White Chicks!
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Nimaihuset
The author of the quote, 'honesty is a lethal weapon against those who have none themselves, is Cicero. Marcus Tullius Cicero, was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, and consul. He was assassinated on December 7, 43 BC, in Formia, Italy.
"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players"From Shakespeare's "As You Like It"
This quote is from the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. It can be found in Chapter 16 of the book.
John Glenn said "If there is one thing I've learned in my years on this planet, it's that the happiest and most fulfilled people I've known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest".
John Glenn said "If there is one thing I've learned in my years on this planet, it's that the happiest and most fulfilled people I've known are those who devoted themselves to something bigger and more profound than merely their own self-interest".
The quote was said by Booker T. Washington. The actual quote stated that African-Americans needed to, "pull themselves up from their own bootstraps." The quote was spoken in response to a disagreement Washington was having about whether achieving equality was the burden of African-Americans or the government.
Mark Twain is credited with writing the quote "The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice." This quote reflects Twain's perspective on the subjectivity and biases present in historical accounts and the way they are recorded and passed down through generations.
I think it is a quote by Andrew Carengie
That quote is from American psychologist Jerome Bruner. Click on the 'Jerome Bruner' link on this page to see his bio.
Einstein
Poe is acknowledging man's natural inclination toward rebellion. It reminds me of a similar quote: 'For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.'