If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Isra...el, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee; as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So we may never Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us... And lived on a certain time after that. And it went away Little by little, as most things do. To profit By this mainstream is today's chore and adventure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A requirement of femininity is that a woman devote her life to love--to mother love, to romantic love, to religious love, to amorp...hous, undifferentiated caring. The territory of the heart is admittedly a province that is open to all, but women alone are expected to make an obsessional career of its exploration, to find whatever adventure, power, fulfillment or tragedy life has to offer within its bounds. There is no question that a woman is apt to feel more feminine, more confident of her interior gender makeup, when she is reliably within some stage of love--even the girlish crush or the stage of unrequited love or a broken heart. Men have suffered for love, and men have accomplished great feats in the name of love, but what man has ever felt at the top of his masculine form when he is lovesick or suffering from heartache?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their imp...unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be naked is to be deprived of our clothes, and the word implies some of the embarrassment most of us feel in that condition. Th...e word "nude," on the other hand, carries, in educated usage, no uncomfortable overtone. The vague image it projects into the mind is not of a huddled and defenseless body, but of a balanced, prosperous, and confident body: the body re-formed. In fact, the word was forced into our vocabulary by critics of the early eighteenth century to persuade artless islanders that, in countries where painting and sculpture were practiced and valued as they should be, the naked human body was the central subject of art.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For character too is a process and an unfolding ... among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too sel...f confident and disdainful; whose distinguished mind is a little spotted with commonness; who is a little pinched here and protruberent there with native prejudices; or whose better energies are liable to lapse down the wrong channel under the influence of transient solicitations?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When young one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be a...ble to remove their trash.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »