Themselves Quotes

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer.

I think that most actors don't have very good opinions of themselves.

The workers of the nation were tired of waiting for corporate industry to right their economic wrongs, to alleviate their social agony and to grant them their political rights. Despairing of fair treatment, they resolved to do something for themselves.

Let me tell you something. Nobody goes to jail unless they want to. Unless they make themselves get caught. They don't have things organized.

Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.

I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves.

From the depth of need and despair, people can work together, can organize themselves to solve their own problems and fill their own needs with dignity and strength.

My great love is my home county of Cornwall, I love to sit and watch people enjoying themselves on the beaches and in the harbour towns of Cornwall.

Too many women throw themselves into romance because they're afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I won't do that.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what they are saying, and that gospel artists view themselves differently.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

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.

Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.

The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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