Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1115 authors
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the…
— Tennessee Williams
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I am not sure that it is of the first importance that you should be happy. Many an unhappy man has been of deep service…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since…
— Robert Winston
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It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it…
— Gene Wolfe
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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called 'The Southern Planter.' He didn't think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist,…
— Tom Wolfe
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What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when a man gave…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
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The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity…
— Carter G. Woodson
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The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped…
— Virginia Woolf
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A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss…
— William Butler Yeats
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In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with…
— Donnie Yen
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My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.
— Henny Youngman
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The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.
— Stefan Zweig
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My best friend, Wil Wheaton, identifies himself as a geek.
— Chris Hardwick
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There are always signs that a reign is ending, and they are usually spotted not in the king himself but in his court. In the…
— Hanna Rosin
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Many billboards and magazine ads have resorted to showing isolated body parts rather than full-body portraits of models using or wearing products. This style of…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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He who seeks truth shall find beauty. He who seeks beauty shall find vanity. He who seeks order shall find gratification. He who seeks gratification…
— Moshe Safdie
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The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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