Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1112 authors
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What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
— Oliver Cromwell
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Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
— Aleister Crowley
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Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.
— John Cusack
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The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all…
— Roald Dahl
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You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some…
— Timothy Dalton
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Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a…
— Richard Dawkins
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It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You…
— Mos Def
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This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a…
— Robert Delaunay
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
— Democritus
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If we do not want to be pained by anybody we must not pain anybody; and how can man consider himself humane if he wants…
— Morarji Desai
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When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
— Charles Dickens
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To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like…
— Denis Diderot
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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the…
— Annie Dillard
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Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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My younger son, Cordell, aka Lil Snoop, loves me like a fan loves Snoop Dogg. He's inspired by making me happy. My older son, Corde,…
— Snoop Dogg
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He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and…
— John Donne
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