Ourselves Quotes

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

On the basis of Lorentz's theory, if we limit ourselves to a single spectral line, it suffices to assume that each atom (or molecule) contains a single moving electron.

There is nothing stronger than the American labor movement. United, we cannot and we will not be turned aside. We'll work for it, sisters and brothers. We'll stand for it. Together. Each of us. To bring out the best in America.To bring out the best in ourselves, and each other.

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

True revolutionaries are like God - they create the world in their own image. Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.

You've gotta do things that make you happy. As women, we tend to give away a lot. We take care of a lot of people, and we can't forget to take care of ourselves.

We were watching the first series recently, and it has a charm, a kind of amateur charm. At that point we didn't involve ourselves technically at all - we just messed about and told our jokes - and it looks a bit like that.

Once the attacks occur, as we learned on Sept. 11, it is too late. It makes little sense to deprive ourselves of an important, and legal, means to detect and prevent terrorist attacks while we are still in the middle of a fight to the death with al Qaeda.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain - we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.

We found ourselves in a hole that I didn't dig, but I have dug, dug and dug to try to get out of that hole.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.