Themselves Quotes

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.

Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?

Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

If you are talking about terrorism, you need to sit down and understand what is making these people put dynamite around their waists and blow themselves up.

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.

I have a profound empathy for people who are in the public eye, whether they manifest it themselves or whether it happened by accident - it doesn't matter to me. I think there's a great misunderstanding of what it is to be famous.

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.

The goal of my Foundation is to give young people a chance to better themselves and establish a base for a successful future.

Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

Those who can command themselves command others.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members of a cosmos ruled by God.

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

People only hate what they see in themselves.

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.

An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.