Themselves Quotes
2739 Themselves quotes by 2177 unique authors
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The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I think one of my strengths is that I can always take advice, and I can delegate. I know a lot of people feel the…
— Dasha Zhukova
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As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to…
— Henry Rollins
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I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least…
— Henry Rollins
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I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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Upbeat is for people who want to feel good about their cause: the reformers, the progressives, the revolutionaries, the utopians, the collectivists, and the rest…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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What cursed spirit of falsehood moveth priests to close themselves within stone walls for all their life, since Christ commanded all his apostles and priests…
— John Wycliffe
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I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
— Samantha Shannon
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Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to…
— Sanjeev Bhaskar
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I always encourage people to pay themselves first, so I really advocate setting up direct deposit for your paycheck and establishing an automatic transfer so…
— Alexa Von Tobel
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Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
— Michael Arrington
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Journalists are supposed to put the people first, even before themselves. Around the world and throughout history, journalists have died to get the truth out.
— Michael Arrington
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We all want to get along well with other people, and one way to do this is to help people feel good about themselves. If…
— Gretchen Rubin
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A beautiful city is Richmond, seated on the hills that overlook the James River. The dwellings have a pleasant appearance, often standing by themselves in…
— William Cullen Bryant
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There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many…
— Mark Barrowcliffe
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Instead of five hundred thousand average algebra teachers, we need one good algebra teacher. We need that teacher to create software, videotape themselves, answer questions,…
— Michael J. Saylor
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In the age of cellphone cameras, everybody thinks of themselves as a tracker.
— Carl Forti
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In my experience, most federal prosecutors, at every level, are seeking to make a name for themselves, and the best way to do that is…
— Jed S. Rakoff
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I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Cultural values are, in themselves, neutral as well as universal, and so much depends on how individuals or ethnic groups use them. Values are influenced…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will…
— F. Sionil Jose
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Novelists in particular love to rhapsodize about the glory of the solitary mind; this is natural, because their job requires them to sit in a…
— Clive Thompson
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