Themselves Quotes

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.

One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it.

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.

I think smart is sexy. I like smart people. People that are comfortable with themselves I think is very sexy. My cat is really sexy.

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round chimneys on the tops of the houses, which yet seemed to us to form an innumerable number of smaller spires, or steeples.

I'm very proud of our NHL players. I think they all handle themselves extremely well and they all work really hard.