Themselves Quotes

And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic.

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

There are guys in the game only because of steroids. They couldn't make it with their natural talent, so they had to enhance themselves. It sucks.

Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves.

I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

It was horrifying. You wouldn't believe how people are treated there. You could see that these people had withdrawn so far that they just lived in their own minds. They did terrible things to themselves.

Everything will be all right - you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it. The children very quickly figure it out and then practice deception themselves.

All writers are liars. They twist events to suit themselves. They make use of their own tragedies to make a better story... They are terrible people.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make.

I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.

The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.