Themselves Quotes

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

There is not to be found, in all history, any miracle attested by a sufficient number of men, of such unquestioned good sense, education and learning, as to secure us against all delusion in themselves.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.

One way for investors to protect themselves from a rapid change in the price of a stock is to use a limit order rather than a market order.

What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness.

I wonder if most people ever ask themselves why love is connected with reproduction. And if they do ask themselves about this, I wonder what answer they give.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

When it comes to privacy and accountability, people always demand the former for themselves and the latter for everyone else.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

When you're walking down the street, or you're at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they're wearing - into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.

War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Happy Days was about a family... although the show was shot in the 70s, it was about a family in the 50s. I realized that kids were watching their parents grow up and the parents were watching themselves grow up. That was the key to the success of our show.

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves.

I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.

To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.