Ourselves Quotes
1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors
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We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.
— Bette Davis
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I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let…
— Jefferson Davis
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
— Sammy Davis, Jr.
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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves…
— Richard Dawkins
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As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a…
— Dorothy Day
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We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we…
— Dorothy Day
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We should demand his blood not from the Arabs of Gaza but from ourselves. Let us make our reckoning today.
— Moshe Dayan
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It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.
— Cecil B. DeMille
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To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
— James Dean
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If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should…
— Johnny Depp
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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.
— Indra Devi
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Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
— Princess Diana
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Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
— Emily Dickinson
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To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
— Joan Didion
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When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is…
— Joan Didion
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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in…
— Isak Dinesen
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Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense,…
— David Duchovny
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It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others,…
— Patty Duke
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To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing…
— Will Durant
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Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.
— Sylvia Earle
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the…
— Roger Ebert
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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why,…
— Meister Eckhart
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Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies…
— Umberto Eco
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If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas A. Edison
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