Themselves Quotes

It has now become a very common sentiment, that there is some deep and radical wrong somewhere, and that legislators have proved themselves incapable of discovering, or, of remedying it.

I wanted to write songs that would play themselves on stage, songs that sweep you through their current.

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

Guardians are necessary for children and abnormal adults, because they cannot make responsible choices for themselves.

I don't know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It's also changing how we're telling stories.

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

If you want to solve very complex problems, you will have to end up letting machines work out a lot of the details for themselves, and in ways that we don't understand what they are doing.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite.

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Every new baby is a blind desperate vote for survival: people who find themselves unable to register an effective political protest against extermination do so by a biological act.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

The fey in this country keep to themselves, and are a separate nation, much like the American Indians, but with even more autonomy.

Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.