Quotes About Confidence

She'd stepped out of sex as if out of a loose dress. Now she was brisk, decisive, no nonsense.

How much longer can I be so fucking cute?

Eu gostaria de não ter vergonha. Gostaria de ser sem vergonha. Gostaria de ser ignorante. Então eu não saberia o quanto era ignorante.

Not me," said Jimmy, trying to joke. "I don't have a price." Wrong, as usual.

Never underestimate the value of superior hair as a literary influence.

Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.

Nevertheless there was something about Crake. That kind of cool slouchiness always impressed Jimmy, coming from another guy: it was the sense of energies being held back, held in reserve for something more important than present company.

If in doubt, play dumb," said Ada

She said that wanting to be liked was a weakness of character.

She who does not hesitate is lost.

I wonder if I should let my hair go grey so my advice will be better.

Look—my feet don't hit the marble! Like breath or a balloon, I'm rising, I hover six inches in the air in my blazing swan-egg of light. You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

The opposite of 'mean' is 'doormat

Unlike Laura, I have never had the courage of my convictions.

If you're going to be wrong, at least be hot.

Whether you are classically beautiful or not, this one thing I know: you give the impression of being beautiful, which is all one can ask. The jewels become you, they do not belittle you.

The combination of power, optimism and abstract thinking makes powerful people more certain. The more cut-off they are from others, the more confident they are that they are right.

Being a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser.

The contempt for what the Viennese satirist Karl Kraus called Bürokretinismus served further to undermine public confidence in their government.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

Well fiddle dee dee!

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care.