Himself Quotes

The scientist only imposes two things, namely truth and sincerity, imposes them upon himself and upon other scientists.

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.

My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

When I'm playing a character like Jonathan in Ripley's Game I want to be in the moment when he's feeling pain; this very ordinary person who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

When man meets an obstacle he can't destroy, he destroys himself.