Themselves Quotes

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.

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.