— Lalleshwari Indian writer, mystic and saint 1320 - 1392
Naked Songs, p. 18
Poetry, From Kashmiri Poetry
„I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.“
Unsourced in Musician's Little Book of Wisdom (1996) by Scott E. Power, Quote 416.
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Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791Related quotes
„I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.“
— Susan Sontag American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933 - 2004
Source: "Susan Sontag Finds Romance," interview by Leslie Garis, The New York Times (2 August 1992)
— Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592
„Thus neither the praise nor the blame is our own.“
— William Cowper (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist 1731 - 1800
"From a Letter to the Rev. Mr. Newton", line 21. (1782).
— Sarah Zettel American writer 1966
Source: Bitter Angels (2009), Chapter 2 (p. 18)
— John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821
Letter to James Hessey (October 9, 1818)
Letters (1817–1820)
„I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.“
— Catherine the Great Empress of Russia 1729 - 1796
As quoted in The Historians' History of the World (1904) by Henry Smith Williams, p. 423
As quoted in The Affairs of Women: A Modern Miscellany (2006) by Colin Bingham, p. 367
Variant: I praise loudly. I blame softly.
— John Wilson Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854) 1785 - 1854
To Christopher North http://www.fullbooks.com/The-Early-Poems-of-Alfred-Lord-Tennyson10.html by Alfred Tennyson.
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„We suffer as a result of our own actions; it is unfair to blame anybody for it.“
— Sarada Devi Hindu religious figure, spiritual consort of Ramakrishna 1853 - 1920
[Swami Saradeshananda, The Holy Mother's Reminiscences, Vedanta Kesari, 1976-1981]
— William Cobbett English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763 - 1835
Political Register, LXXV, pp. 364-365 (4 February 1832).
„I suppose when my unknown elements are found, more people will pay us attention.“
— Dmitri Mendeleev Russian chemist and inventor 1834 - 1907
An Outline of the System of the Elements
— Emmitt Smith American football player and sports broadcaster 1969
Jim Greenidge (January 24, 1996) "Smith Rose to the Occasion in '95 Cowboy Mainstay Had Get-Up-And-Go", Boston Globe, p. 54.
„My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.“
— Khalil Gibran Lebanese artist, poet, and writer 1883 - 1931
Sand and Foam (1926)
„I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion“
— Jack Kerouac, book On the Road
Variant: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Source: On the Road
„I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire.“
— James Branch Cabell, book Figures of Earth
Miramon, in Ch. IV : In the Doubtful Palace
Figures of Earth (1921)
Context: I am Manuel, and I follow after my own thinking and my own desire. Of course it is very fine of me to be renouncing so much wealth and power for the sake of my wonderful dear Niafer: but she is worth the sacrifice, and, besides, she is witnessing all this magnanimity, and cannot well fail to be impressed.
— Gong Yoo South Korean actor 1979
Source: "Interview with Gong Yoo and Bae Doona, stars of The Silent Sea" in The Hindu https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/watch-interview-with-gong-yoo-and-bae-doona-stars-of-the-silent-sea/article38024567.ece (24 December 2021)