Direct Quote by Robert Bresson

The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power

— Steven Biko

Pride is an established conviction of one's own paramount worth in some particular respect, while vanity is the desire of rousing such a conviction…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I've gotten to a point where I wouldn't direct someone else's material. It would only be something totally original.

— Trey Parker

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

— Anonymous

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the…

— Denis Diderot

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

— Simone Weil

The self is defined psychologically as the psychic totality of the individual. Anything that a [person] postulates as being a greater totality than [oneself]…

— Carl Jung

To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds,…

— Leo Tolstoy

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:…

— Orson Scott Card

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

— Henry Rollins

One must not let oneself be overwhelmed by sadness.

— Anonymous

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis