Quotes About Self-sufficient

I'm not playing hard to get. I'm playing leave me the fu.. alone.

I'm very low-maintenance.

I think I'm low-maintenance.

I'm pretty low-maintenance.

I just never was the marrying kind.

self-contained,

I'm single because I was born that way.

Rather free than rich

After World War II, Marxist archaeologists argued that Stone Age societies were economically self-sufficient and therefore incapable of warfare -that is until they excavated skeletons with flint arrows embedded in them.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.

For the more we think of ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the harder it is to learn gratitude and humility. And without these sentiments, it is hard to care for the common good.

No one in my family questions my desire, however inchoate or ineffable, because it's partly their desire too: this need to be self-sufficient and free at all costs.

The term "autotelic" derives from two Greek words, auto meaning self, and telos meaning goal. It refers to a self-contained activity, one that is done not with the expectation of some future benefit, but simply because the doing itself is the reward.

The manorial system, widespread in the West from Charlemagne's time onward, was not at first favorable to the development of agriculture and commerce. Manors tended to be self-sufficient; the economy was closed. Men lived in their small world, in constant fear of the strange world beyond, from which came only evil. The best they could hope for was to endure, and they endured.

Since God is always the giver, why would He beg your 10% tithe?! God doesn't need your money or any contribution. He's self-sufficient.

The only hope that's left is to cultivate our gardens and to become self-sufficient in everything that we do.

God was God all by Himself

God is his own best apologist.

Parochialism and provincialism are direct opposites. A provincial is always trying to live by other people's loves, but a parochial is self-sufficient.

vlastito tijelo nastanjivala je poput ma?ke. Nije mi bila toliko lijepa koliko egzoti?na, premda je izraz možda pretjeran za ono što želim re?i. Sposobnost da se ostavi dojam, bilo bi to vjerojatno to?nije onomu što pokušavam re?i, odre?eni samodostatni izgled koji je ?ovjeka tjerao da je poželi gledati ?ak i kad bi samo besposleno sjedila

In Islam, it is a sin to claim that any other divinity existed beside Allah. Moreover, Allah is totally self-sufficient and needs nothing to complete him. This rigorous monotheism led some of the Sufis to the logical conclusion that nothing at all exists except Allah. And since Allah is within each one of us, it is possible to attain mystical union with Allah.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain.