Himself Quotes

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.

They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

The real "action" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

Darwin himself recorded the fact that he accepted the Malthusian idea.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others.