#fish

Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#freedom #god #god-s-will #selfishness #spiritual-paths

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard. ↗

— Trevor Dunn

#bird #family #feel #fish #i

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others. ↗

— Charles William Eliot

#cannot #choking #commandment #develop #development

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#empty #idle #importance #selfish #stuck-up

I definitely have a Fisher voice. ↗

— Joely Fisher

#fisher #i #voice

there are no houses to wife. only window seats to occupy when the weather needs changing & waters to flow past our ankles on Sundays as we fish. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#fishing #wife #change

I'm from Manchester, Mass., so it was lobster, lobster and more lobster! Also, lots of fish that we caught in the summers, clam chowder and roast beef sandwiches. But my mom was pretty healthy; we had a lot of chicken and broccoli and rice as well. ↗

— Sprague Grayden

#beef #broccoli #caught #chicken #fish

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. ↗

— John Gunther

#american politics #cannot #cut #generalizations #politics

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#businesswoman #children #chip #common #common sense