Themselves Quotes

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

God help those who do not help themselves.

I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.

I always thought I could do a good job coaching, but the opportunities have not presented themselves.

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me.

A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it's quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

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

Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

I'm amused when Congress tries to place the blame on somebody but never themselves. I've never heard any of them ever say, 'I've made a mistake.' I do. I say I called it wrong. But they just try to find somebody to blame.

Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment.

Every parent wants to know that their children are protected against those who have a particular agenda until they get old enough to make decisions for themselves.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.

I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

In this I-me society, my job is to get people to buy into something bigger than themselves.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'