Themselves Quotes

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.

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

One of my primary objects is to form the tools so the tools themselves shall fashion the work and give to every part its just proportion.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

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.