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What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. — Albert Camus

As people spin faster and faster in the pursuit of merely personal happiness, they become exhausted in the futile effort of chasing themselves. — Andrew Delbanco

Her smile grew bitter as desert brine. The gods may forgive Ista all day long. But if Ista does not forgive Ista, the gods may go hang themselves. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A man is very revealed by his wife, just as a woman is revealed by her husband. People never marry beneath or above themselves, I assure you. — Carol Grace

Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves. — Tennessee Williams

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions ... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies. — Carolyn Heilbrun

As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth

To achieve any group goal, individuals must work to improve themselves as a means to improve the group. — George M. Gilbert

You want to know what weakness is? Weakness is treating someone as though they belong to you. Strength is knowing that everyone belongs to themselves. — Yaa Gyasi

Success will come just as a mere wish when cars begin to manufacture and drive themselves. Believe it or not, "nothing comes out if nothing goes in"! — Israelmore Ayivor

He is as much a part of the Derby tradition as the Twin Spires themselves — John Mallory Asher

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers. — John Allen Paulos

Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves. — John N. Gray

Charisma is not so much getting people to like you as getting people to like themselves when you're around. — Robert Breault

Only as a man surrenders himself to Devine Love may he hope for salvation, and salvation is open to all who surrender themselves — Dante Alighieri

Nothing seems to me so likely to make people unhappy in themselves and at variance with others as the habit of killing time. — Dorothea Dix

The creative process must be explored ... as the expression of the normal people in the act of actualizing themselves. — Rollo May

In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. — Peter J. Carroll

They introduced themselves as Agent Jones and Agent Brown - their real names, I later learned, though at the time I didn't believe them. — James K. Morrow

German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you. — G.K. Chesterton

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. — Norman Cousins

It is nice in France they adapt themselves to everything slowly they change completely but all the time they know that they are as they were. — Gertrude Stein

I wasn't interested in just photographing someone naked, I was interested in representing them as clothed in their own skin, secure in themselves. — Mona Kuhn

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. — Thomas Sowell

As players see themselves getting better through skill sessions, they will want to get in the gym more — Billy Donovan

Romantics might like to think of themselves as being composed of stardust. Cynics might prefer to think of themselves as nuclear waste. — Simon Singh

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer — Ricky Gervais

Villains are fun. I think the important thing in playing them is that they don't see themselves as villains. It lets you be a little more expansive. — Rhys Ifans

The attitude behind your words is as important as the words themselves. — Adele Faber

Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness. — Elizabeth Goudge

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves. — Thomas Sherlock

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well. — Maureen Murdock

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved! — Bruce Van Horn

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves. — Peter Singer

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders. — Amanda Ripley

Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant. — George Ade

Most people are full of themselves and speak only the obnoxiously superficial, in other words they're annoying as hell — Novala Takemoto

Elites quite naturally define as the most important and admired qualities for a citizen those on which they themselves have concentrated. — John Ralston Saul

They considered themselves free and no one will ever be free as long as there is plague, pestilence and famine — Albert Camus

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well? — Akhil Sharma

I set forth notions that are human and my own, simply as human notions considered in themselves, not as determined and decreed by heavenly ordinance. — Michel De Montaigne

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves. — Matsuo Basho

You know how writers are ... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves. — Orson Scott Card

Everyone thought of themselves as a victim, never a willing accomplice. One — Svetlana Alexievich

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. — Jose Bergamin

They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins. - Hosea 9:9 — James Rollins

Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues. — Kenneth Minogue

I am protecting women's rights, their human right to decide their futures for themselves, and to live their lives as they see fit. — Dr. Willie Parker

Good leaders are always in the "act" of leading. They listen as much to others as they listen to themselves. — Maureen Chiquet

As long as I have fun playing, the stats will take care of themselves. — Ken Griffey Jr.

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. — Andre Gide

Leaders lead themselves first and foremost. Only then can they act as example and inspiration to others. — Christopher Babson

You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole. — Thomas Hutchinson

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves. — Samuel Johnson

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. — Oscar Wilde

They love their delusions as they love themselves. — Sigmund Freud

God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves. — Max Anders

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We are at crisis point. I think anybody that sees this nation as being on stable economic or fiscal ground is fooling themselves. — Joe Miller

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound. — James McKean

The folk of Hell-Knows-Where by default still thought of themselves as Americans. — Stephen Baxter

Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed. — Bernard Berenson

I think comedians see themselves as people among people. — Michael Showalter

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves. — Margaret Atwood

People who lie to themselves about investing are the same as overweight people who blame their genes for their obesity. — Robert Kiyosaki

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. — Ellen Glasgow

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.
If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen. — Toba Beta

I feel that we are all philosophers, and that those who describe themselves as a 'philosopher' simply do not have a day job to go to. — Kevin Warwick

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true. — Robert A. Heinlein

But things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him. — Anthony Trollope

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves? — Diane Ravitch

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves. — Ethan Suplee

Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins

I feel as if I'm clearly part of a trend among writers who take themselves seriously - and I confess to taking myself as seriously as the next writer. — Jonathan Franzen

The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves. — Cormac McCarthy

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress. — Cherie Blair

I'm not happy if other people aren't enjoying themselves, so I try to lighten the mood as much as I can. — Tom Weston-Jones

I don't think about the stories so much, as the characters themselves. They live on, and they are almost as real as I am. — Paul Auster

They [the Pilgrims] believed in freedom of thought for themselves and for all other people who believed exactly as they did. — Will Cuppy

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.' — Alton Brown

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. — David Petersen

Most people focus on forgiving others, thinking there isn't a need for self-forgiveness, particularly if they see themselves as a victim. — Liane Holliday Willey

Most salespeople would like to think of themselves as being rock stars, but they don't display the talent to match their definition. — Jeffrey Gitomer

We're using the gifts of God as if they themselves are gods. — Matt Chandler

Before hurting anyone, especially those who cannot protect themselves, feel their pain with your heart. Take care of them as your little child. — Debasish Mridha

In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. — Etgar Keret

Hip hop is still strong. As an art form, music helps people express themselves, find meaning in their own lives and connect with their tribes. — Erik Parker

I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves. — Nathalie Emmanuel

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves. — Maya Rudolph

One journalist complemented another that his article on a dispute, had made both sides see themselves as they are. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as. — Mario Chalmers

Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness — Epictetus

This, then, is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. — Paulo Freire

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job. — Alastair Campbell

She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men. — John Irving

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato. — Moses Finley