Themselves Quotes

We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

The fool is like those people who think themselves rich with little.

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule?

Because the better an organization is at fulfilling its purpose, the more it attracts people who see the organization as an opportunity to advance themselves.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

What did Citibank get out of it? It got the ability to reverse the arbitrage. Actually, what they got was the ability to give themselves a profit, and that saved the bank.

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

You know, technology CEOs like to think of themselves as rock 'n roll stars.

Women are more sure of themselves today. They don't have to emulate the way men dress.

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

I would love to do a period piece - in the 18th or 17th century. To me, it would be such an incredible challenge because of the way people carried themselves. There are so many incredible stories within those centuries - just the language and the way they carried themselves and what they were going through.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror.

As to the advantages of temperance in the training of the armed forces and of its benefits to the members of the forces themselves, there can be no doubt in the world.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?