Ourselves Quotes

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Women are not pals enough with men, so we must make ourselves indispensable. After all, we have the greatest weapon in our hands by just being women.

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

Let us live no more to ourselves, but to Him who loved us, and gave Himself to die for us.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity?

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.

Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

This whole thing's about development. Not only are we trying to develop players, we're trying to develop ourselves.

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.