Themselves Quotes

2739 Themselves quotes by 2177 unique authors

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public. — Daniel Day-Lewis
I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times… — Jack Canfield
I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold… — Richard Briers
Much can and must be done by governments, but they cannot of themselves change lives. — Jonathan Sacks
There is a point at which methods devour themselves. — Frantz Fanon
My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he… — Henry Louis Gates
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. — Robert H. Jackson
Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the… — Elihu Root
By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their… — Ian Mcewan
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel… — Marie Osmond
I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which… — Diane Wakoski
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite… — Diane Wakoski
Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than… — Agnes Macphail
If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit. — Kevin Nealon
Lots of people fantasize about what it would be like if they were president... Most think they'd be decent and wouldn't be corrupted at all,… — Kevin Kline
At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I… — Oliver Reed
The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those… — Harold Rosenberg
Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need… — Daniel Dennett
Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is… — Bernice Johnson Reagon
Everything we know about human nature and about government tells us that individuals using their own money will achieve far more good for themselves and… — Harry Browne
A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there… — Jimmy Dean
All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate… — Graham Swift
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons. — Emile Durkheim
From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves. — Eric Burdon

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