Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1112 authors
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The American soldier is quick in adapting himself to a new mode of living. Outfits which have been here only three days have dug vast…
— Ernie Pyle
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What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the…
— Mark Spitz
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The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view,…
— Simon Greenleaf
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What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
— Emil Nolde
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man…
— Matthew Arnold
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By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.
— Solomon Schechter
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Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his…
— Bayard Taylor
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He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who…
— Saint Basil
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In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his…
— Jeff Goodell
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I'm a huge fan of David Hockney. I love the way he keeps reinventing himself.
— Antony Sher
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For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid…
— Ron Fournier
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By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician…
— Ron Fournier
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Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.
— Ron Fournier
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The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that…
— Emmet Fox
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If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is…
— Pope Francis
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A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we…
— Pope Francis
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The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'
— James Franco
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A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
— Benjamin Franklin
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