Ourselves Quotes

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

To the degree we're not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

But I think there was a sense amongst the House Republicans especially that we didn't just want to be opposed to Bill Clinton; that we wanted to tell the country what we were for and to brand ourselves in a more positive manner.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.

We all live in a time where we're supposed to have choices and how do we wrangle that and how do we make the best choices for ourselves and our families. It has nothing to do with feminism.