Themselves Quotes

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.

Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration.

A lot of the cats I grew up with in the South Bronx found themselves in sticky situations.

Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.

I love Nicki Minaj, Eminem, Katy Perry. They are all about being themselves and I love that.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

So it's not so much that I set out to do something different, it's just that the songs themselves require their own individual voice and attention.

Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself!

I believe that my children, who are young, will look back on the early years of the 21st century in rather the same way I look back on the middle of the 20th: as a time when seemingly respectable people supported discrimination against Americans simply because those Americans were different from themselves.

It was the wish of the Americans that their red brethren should remain peacefully round their own fires, and not embroil themselves in any disputes between the white people.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

The maxim, that governments ought to train the people in the way in which they should go, sounds well. But is there any reason for believing that a government is more likely to lead the people in the right way than the people to fall into the right way of themselves?

We don't do drugs, drink or use profanity. Instead we instill morals and values in my boys by raising them with a love of God and a love and respect for themselves and all people. I believe they will have a chance.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.