Themselves Against Quotes
51 Themselves Against quotes by 46 unique authors
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But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against…
— Jack London
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May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in…
— Arundhati Roy
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And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will…
— Virginia Woolf
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Einstein wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That said, is it crazier to repeatedly throw…
— David Sedaris
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We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every…
— Ray Bradbury
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I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour themselves against reprimand. It is a word intended…
— Steven Erikson
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.. if you asked most people whether they believed in love or not, they’d probably say they didn’t. Yet that’s not necessarily what they truly…
— Alain de Botton
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Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
— Cassandra Clare
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It's often a bad sign when people defend themselves against charges which haven't been made.
— Christopher Hitchens
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For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.…
— Patrick Süskind
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The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the…
— Ernest Hemingway
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You're gorgeous," she said. Her hands slid around to flatten themselves against his chest. "You know that right?" "And I just don't care," she says…
— Cassandra Clare
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In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has…
— George Eliot
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Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech…
— Leonard Cohen
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Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against…
— Nathaniel Branden
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At the bidding of a Peter the Hermit millions of men hurled themselves against the East; the words of an hallucinated enthusiast such as Mahomet…
— Gustave Le Bon
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It is proper that noble spirits, equipped with truth and enlightened with the Divine intelligence, should arm themselves against dense ignorance by climbing up to…
— Giordano Bruno
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The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to…
— Steve Stockman
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The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in…
— Bernard Beckett
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All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them…
— Albert Speer
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Let me put it this way: I definitely need to understand the villains I play. The best cause pain to anesthetize themselves against their own…
— Ron Perlman
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The Muslims wanted to reign over the whole of Mostar, then gain ground to the sea and finally create an Islamic state. That is what…
— Franjo Tudjman
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The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
— George Grosz
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