Ourselves Quotes

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

We're kind of like the smoking section in high school. We're immature, keep to ourselves.

We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

America has always been a nation of small places, and as we lose them, we're losing part of ourselves.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

If we call ourselves children of God, then others are also children of God.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.