Themselves Quotes

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force.

In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

There are people that very strongly identify themselves as gay and then lesbian, and then I think there are a lot of people who are kind of some percentage or some version of that.

In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

And also, more and more businesses really want to do the right thing. They feel better about themselves, their workers feel better, and so do their customers. I think this is equally true in the transnational corporations, but it is harder to express in those situations.

A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... those who subjected themselves to the will of a man were governed by a beast.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate.

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.

Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping.

Exactly Straight women who surround themselves only with gay men or white people who refuse any other race into their circles are unhealthy and it has more to do with one's individual fear and individual closets.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

There are so many people that don't believe in themselves and don't have faith.