Ourselves Quotes

1703 Ourselves quotes by 1336 unique authors

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a… — Warren Stephens
To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal. — Violette Leduc
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it. — Robert Webb
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. — Colin Angle
When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult… — Michael Cadnum
In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse. — Joanna Scott
Folks are always talking about 40 acres and a mule, but what we need is some psychoanalysis. Forget 40 acres in a mule: sign all… — LaTanya Richardson
Even more than we want good love for ourselves, we want it for our children, those vulnerable satellites of our hearts that we send, unsteady,… — Mona Simpson
Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling. — Simon McBurney
Memory is a fiction we tell ourselves: just a piece of the truth. — Chelsea Cain
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. — Kenneth Clarke
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go… — Hale White
If we are ever in doubt about what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow… — John Lubbock
So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do. — Mother Maribel
The first half of life is spent mainly in finding out who we are through seeing ourselves in our interaction with others. — June Singer
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. — Buddha
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. — Don Marquis
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves. — E. Joseph Cossman
True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us… — Ralph W. Sockman
We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better;… — Harold Bloom
The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. — Gifford Pinchot
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. — John Mason Brown
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves. — Robert Anthony
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve? — Abigail Adams

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