Himself Quotes

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Draco's not really a bully. He's not exactly the biggest, strongest guy in the world. He's more a rich, snobby person. He thinks of himself as really cool.

Through leadership of the fight against French colonialism, Ho Chi Minh had made a name for himself in the international political arena.

One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

If a cow walked into this room, I'd probably walk out. I could milk it, but my dad never forced me to do a lot of chores like that, mostly because he loved doing it himself.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

As we learn from the New Testament, the Jews and the Samaritans in the days of Jesus were not agreed on the question which was the proper place of worship, but that there could be only one was taken to be as certain as the unity of God Himself.

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.

It is hard for people outside the White House to understand the constant daily problems and issues that come up that require the president's attention, but he can not let himself get too personally involved.