Ourselves Quotes

And one of the things I want to say, Wolf, is we're 100 days from hurricane season, and we've got to start focusing on what we're going to do to make ourselves ready for the next hurricane.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in the days of the Kaiser; rather, peace is the emergency in which we all have to prove ourselves.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

This path that we are now starting will be long, and we must follow it to remind ourselves of the great principles that, in our understanding, should always inspire us.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

What also helps our show is that we never take ourselves seriously.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.

Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.

The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

We try to create this interesting appearance to make ourselves feel better about ourselves.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.