Themselves Quotes
2739 quotes by 2189 authors
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties,…
— Ethel Barrymore
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little…
— Bruce Barton
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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
— Jean Baudrillard
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible…
— Nina Bawden
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Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
— John Berger
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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter…
— Joseph Addison
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Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.
— George Ade
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
— Brendan Behan
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We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose…
— Clive Bell
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I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you…
— Monica Bellucci
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
— Warren G. Bennis
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up…
— Kate Adie
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I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some…
— Peter Berg
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Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
— Jose Bergamin
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Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper…
— Alfred Adler
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.
— Halle Berry
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Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.
— Mortimer Adler
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