Himself Quotes

A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

The cuckoo who is on to himself is halfway out of the clock.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.