Ourselves Quotes

1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors

God be thanked for the thinkers of good and noble thoughts! It wakes up all the best in ourselves, to come into close contact with… — Lucy Larcom
Our relatives form the natural setting of our childhood. We understand ourselves best and are best understood by others through the persons who came nearest… — Lucy Larcom
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within.… — Lucy Larcom
Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk… — Harold Bloom
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry. — Lewis Thomas
Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for… — Alfred de Vigny
Endurance, after all, is the only reason we even exist. We think of ourselves as nature's deadliest animals, but the truth is, a naked human… — Christopher McDougall
To look at ourselves from afar, to make the subjective suddenly objective: this gives us a psychic shock. — Julian Barnes
The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally… — James Cromwell
It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get… — Miriam Makeba
Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things… — Miriam Makeba
When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder… — J. William Fulbright
The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves. — Malcolm McDowell
The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world. — Peter Mandelson
So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence… — Thom Mayne
You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume… — Tim McGraw
In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways… — Chris Noth
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that… — Meshell Ndegeocello
I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or… — Mira Nair
I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and… — Carre Otis
Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane. — Will Oldham
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others. — Daniel Pennac
We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever. — Cat Power
We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families. — Dan Lipinski
Our biggest goal is to continue to force ourselves to always start our creative work on a white page and not take advantage of past… — Guy Laliberte

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