Themselves Quotes

I'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life.

In general, I enjoy athletes who have a strong character who let their abilities speak for themselves.

With the right support, a child growing up in a dysfunctional household, who was destined for a lifetime on benefits could be put on an entirely different track - one which sees them move into fulfilling and sustainable work. In doing so, they will pull themselves out of poverty.

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.

The shock of the way I mix patterns and fabrics can be disconcerting, but what I am trying to do is provoke new ideas about how pieces can be put together in different ways. I think this is a more modern way to wear clothes that in themselves are fairly classic.

If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

But we have created a society that does not allow opportunities for those people to take care of themselves because we have denied them those opportunities.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.

I think actors have a choice of drawing attention to themselves or living on the outskirts.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so.

They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.

One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously.

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.