Ourselves Quotes

I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops.

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration.

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.

We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing.

There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

If we are completely honest with ourselves, everyone has a dark side to their personalities.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

I hope we never get to the point that we put ourselves in Jesus' place. But when I read the New Testament basically, we get three mandates: to love God, to love each other, and to take care of the least among us. And I think this is at least a step in the right direction.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.