“If you are your own worst enemy, don't do yourself any favors.”
Tom Heehler American author
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus (2011)
“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”
— Ayn Rand
Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism," 1976
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Russian-American novelist and philosopher 1905–1982Related quotes
Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here
Variant: At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can
do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground
banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh.
Source: A Place Called Here
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Love in the Afternoon
Maneka Gandhi (1956) Indian politician and activist
After being elected in 1989, as quoted in Gandhi Family Rebel Charts a New Role in India's Politics http://articles.latimes.com/1989-12-01/news/vw-315_1_maneka-gandhi, Los Angeles Times (1 December 1989) <br class="br">1981-1990
“You have made homosexuality official and legal. I spit in your face.”
Ahmad Jannati (1927) Iranian ayatollah
Secretary of Iranian Guardian Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati: I Spit in the Face of the West, which Has Made Homosexuality Official and Legal https://www.memri.org/tv/secretary-iranian-guardian-council-ayatollah-ahmad-jannati-i-spit-face-west-which-has-made/transcript,2006 <br class="br">Homosexuality
“… the Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself."”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
That's it. <br class="br"> Post, linux.dev.kernel newsgroup, Google Groups, 1996-10-16, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.961016155929.27735D-100000%40linux.cs.Helsinki.FI, <br class="br">1990s, 1995-99
“If you get yourself killed, I'll find your grave and spit on it," she threatened.”
Julie Garwood (1946) American writer
Source: Honor's Splendour
“You are bad and mean and I'm going to spit on your cupcakes.”
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: Adorkable
