Themselves Quotes
2739 Themselves quotes by 2177 unique authors
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Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
— Florence Nightingale
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow…
— Florence Nightingale
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I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping…
— Mojo Nixon
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We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did…
— Richard M. Nixon
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My approach with actors is to try and give them whatever it is they need from me. Direction to me is about listening and responding…
— Christopher Nolan
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America offers the most amount of people the best opportunity to pursue happiness on the planet. That's why millions of illegal immigrants have poured into…
— Bill O'Reilly
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I'm fascinated by the ways in which people express themselves, because their responses are often counter to what they're actually feeling. Like when they're frightened,…
— Edward Norton
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I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself,…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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I've always been interested in writing about people, including young children who are not able to speak for themselves. As in my novel 'Black Water,'…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
— Conor Oberst
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There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available.…
— Phil Ochs
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Do I feel any pressure as the most decorated Winter Olympian in American history? None at all. The only pressures that I know I face…
— Apolo Ohno
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow…
— Ben Okri
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Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group…
— Mary Oliver
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Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So…
— Suze Orman
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Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.
— Kelly Osbourne
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A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who…
— Patton Oswalt
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There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest…
— Mehmet Oz
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We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients…
— Mehmet Oz
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People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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