Oneself Against Quotes
- A play presents a self-enclosed little world for the audience to examine. It's an opportunity to look objectively at a group of people, to assess… — Wallace Shawn
- To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced. — James A. Baldwin
- As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To… — Susan Sontag
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The… — Flannery O'Connor
- One only makes books in order to keep in touch with one's fellows after one has ceased to breath, and thus to defend oneself against… — Stefan Zweig
- Taunting Death ... means pitting oneself against a wily enemy who cannot lose. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth;… — Niccolo Machiavelli