Ourselves Quotes

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

You can't get the visual thing on the record as much as you'd like to. We produced this album, and we'd never done that before, except when we produced singles for ourselves.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

The people of Nicaragua were suffering oppression. This made us develop an awareness which eventually led us to commit ourselves to the struggle against the domination of the capitalists of our country in collusion with the U.S. government, i.e. imperialism.

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.

We must believe in the power of education. We must respect just laws. We must love ourselves, our old and or young, our women as well as our men.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

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.

My hairdresser and I found ourselves shopping at Bloomingdale's with nothing to do for days.

We need to police ourselves in the media.

Liberals worry that what's best for the individual might not be better for the public at large. But that philosophy assumes something vicious about each and every one of us. It assumes we only care about ourselves.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in serious scholarship and work in the United States federal tax court. My husband and I raised five kids. We've raised 23 foster children. We've applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally.

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner.