Himself Quotes

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Let's use the opportunities before us to stand for Christ. If we will do, God himself will honor our efforts and America can be restored.

He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.

A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.

The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If the child is left to himself, he will think more and better, if less showily. Let him go and come freely, let him touch real things and combine his impressions for himself.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.

The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself.

When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.

For the president to resign now would be wrong. President Clinton may have debased himself with his behavior, but we shouldn't debase the office with an impulsive overreaction.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Men like to squash you. I just want someone who's happy with himself, happy with his life. He doesn't have to squash mine.

I feel like I was born and bred to stay self-motivated. I'm not one of those people who ho-hums and feels sorry for himself when something's bad.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes other people sick.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

To this congress the poet speaks not of peculiar and personal things, but of what in himself is most common, most anonymous, most fundamental, most true of all men.

It isn't tying himself to one woman that a man dreads when he thinks of marrying; it's separating himself from all the others.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.