Himself Quotes
1491 quotes by 1117 authors
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My father ran a corner drug store where he worked night and day, seven days a week, until he died of a stroke. He literally…
— R. T. Rybak
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My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate…
— Lorrie Moore
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I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has…
— Jennifer Nettles
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My father had always identified himself as a writer to my mother when they met. When they met, he was writing this great novel, there…
— Nick Flynn
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I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow…
— Mike Yaconelli
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so,…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving…
— Thomas Keating
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An actor can change himself to fit a part, whereas a personality has to change the part to fit himself. The personality has to say…
— Dale Robertson
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What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality…
— Leslie Howard
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When a man says he is building a house for himself and his posterity, he does not mean to be understood as saying that he…
— Lysander Spooner
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Up to his twenty-sixth year, the heart of Ignatius was enthralled by the vanities of the world. His special delight was in the military life,…
— Saint Ignatius
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Christianity has aimed to deliver us from a life determined by nature, from the appetites as actuating us, and so has meant that man should…
— Max Stirner
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One thing George R. R. Martin does is surprising things to main characters. But he says so himself.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be…
— Jack Cade
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Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he…
— Harry S Truman
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I'm much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was…
— Michael Scheuer
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A person shows himself through how he acts with others.
— Vikrant Parsai
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He who explains things to an intelligent person need not tire himself out talking.
— Vikrant Parsai
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In anger a man becomes dangerous to himself and to others.
— Vikrant Parsai
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A beggar considers himself poor because he has nothing, but a rich man considers himself poor only because he has no money.
— Vikrant Parsai
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