Indulgence Quotes - Page 13

• I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Beautiful, Girl, Son

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.299, e-artnow

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• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

  Terence McKenna

  Self, Despair, Psychedelic

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• Facials are my biggest beauty indulgence. Looking good is about having a good base. It's about taking care of your skin.

  Halle Berry

  Inspirational, Beauty, Skins

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• Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Moral Judgement, Self, Awareness

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• Where character forbids self-indulgence, transcendence still hovers around.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Character, Self, Transcendence

  Richard M. Weaver (2013). “Ideas Have Consequences”, p.73, University of Chicago Press

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• War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spring, War, Fall

  William Ellery CHANNING (1816). “A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc”, p.12

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• There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Country, Party, Character

  Mississippi. Constitutional Convention, George Washington (1851). “Journal of the convention of the state of Mississippi, and the act calling the same: with the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address”, p.73

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• Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

  Anne Waldman

  Spiritual, Crazy, Ignorance

  Source: www.poetspath.com

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• The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Body, Human Body, Humans

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Taken, People

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spring, Passion, Blood

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.32

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• A token of ecological awareness in a society devoted to self destruction and waste but unwilling to acknowledge its indulgent ways.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Way, Waste

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.796, Spectra

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• By providing cheap and wholesome reading for the young, we have partly succeeded in driving from the field that which was positively bad; yet nothing is easier than to overdo a reformation, and, through the characteristic indulgence of American parents, children are drugged with a literature whose chief merit is its harmlessness.

  Agnes Repplier

  Children, Reading, Parent

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals,a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.

  Francois Rabelais

  Faith, Silly, Player

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• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar , were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  Jacob Epstein

  Teacher, School, Drawing

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.10, Read Books Ltd

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• Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

  Hugh Blair

  Charity, Molestation, Injury

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• Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ambition, Mean, Self

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.81, Modern Library

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• I absolutely cannot see how one can later make up for having failed to go to a good school at the proper time. For this is what distinguishes the hard school as a good school from all others: that much is demanded; and sternly demanded; that the good, even the exceptional, is demanded as the norm; that praise is rare, that indulgence is nonexistent; that blame is apportioned sharply, objectively, without regard for talent or antecedents. What does one learn in a hard school? Obeying and commanding.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  School, Doe, Blame

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• The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God

  Charles Williams

  Love, Mean, Emotional

  Charles Williams (2016). “He Came Down From Heaven”, p.11, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• I did 50 takes on Robert Shaw assembling the Greener Gun on 'Jaws.' The shark wasn't working, so I just kept shooting to make the production report look like we were accomplishing something and to keep cast and crew from going crazy from boredom. It was a strategic indulgence.

  Steven Spielberg

  Crazy, Gun, Sharks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Reading, Self

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I believe eating well, and with people you love, is about feeding your body, heart, and soul - I used juicing to ensure I covered my nutritional bases every day, and as a tool to restore inner balance if my body needed a break from too much indulgence.

  Salma Hayek

  Believe, Heart, Love Is

  Eric Helms, Amely Greeven, Salma Hayek (2014). “The Juice Generation: 100 Recipes for Fresh Juices and Superfood Smoothies”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• For me that's one of the great indulgences in life - a hand-tailored suit, and a great pair of handmade shoes.

  Hugh Jackman

  Hands, Shoes, Tailored Suits

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• The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.

  Grover Cleveland

  Character, Government, Expectations

  Grover Cleveland (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: Chronology, Documents, Bibliographical Aids”

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• Members of royal families are born into a world of indulgence and entitlement, and the princelings who grow up that way may never have to develop the emotional musculature that will allow them to show self-restraint.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Growing Up, Emotional, Self

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