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Tag Name "Indulgent" (96)

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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
Aleksandar Hemon
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Give me, indulgent gods with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene, No splendid poverty, no smiling care, No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.
Edward Young
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On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.
C. S. Lewis
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How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!
Honore de Balzac
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The show became popular as aspecialthing became popular. And Sasquatch, the guy who runs that site, started coming to every show and reviewing it. And when people start talking about the reviews from the stage. That to me is really self indulgent and we tried to put a caper on that.
Scott Aukerman
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I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
Hugh Jackman
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I go anywhere I want, do whatever I want when I get there, they let me make self-indulgent TV about that experience, and give me about as much creative freedom as anyone's ever had in the history of television.
Anthony Bourdain
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Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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Audiences don't want to see the kind of self-indulgent, boring dance that is so prevalent today.
Mark Morris
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Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.
Michael Hutchence
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I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.
Melissa McCarthy
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Because the Lord loves us He chastens and rebukes us. Modern sentimentality has reduced God to a tolerant indulgent grandfatherly being who winks at our transgressions.
Vance Havner
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Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.
Thomas Otway
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
Joseph Joubert
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Let us often think of our own infirmities, and we shall become indulgent toward those of others.
Francois Fenelon
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... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.
Anthony Bourdain
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It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.
Voltaire
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I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
Marge Piercy
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Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
Courtney Love
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Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
John Lydon
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When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.
David Hasselhoff
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Gogol is unaccustomed to this sort of talk at mealtimes, to the indulgent ritual of the lingering meal, and the pleasant aftermath of bottles and crumbs and empty glasses that clutter the table.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history. Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive.
John F. Kennedy
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