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Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can't do anything because they're tied up in knots. — Barney Frank

It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes. — Larry The Cable Guy

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror. — Gloria Steinem

The people who call you names are just trying to make themselves feel better. They've fucked up too. You're not the only one. — Kody Keplinger

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield
themselves up when taken little by little. — Plutarch

What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes
Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts ... — William Shakespeare

At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me. — Rick Riordan

Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves. — Frank Beddor

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute

[They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks. — Diane Setterfield

Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power. — Hal Draper

What shall we do there?" "Climb up the hill to the old fort and look at the little wriggling gold snakes, and watch the lizards sun themselves. — Kate Chopin

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile. — Pedro Winter

That evening, getting up from the table, she had crossed the invisible boundary beyond which things start working by themselves. — Paolo Giordano

I don't make people smoke pot or meth, snort coke, put pills or tabs in their mouths or shoot themselves up with heroin. I just transport the stuff. — S.A. Tawks

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time. — Dana Perino

Dudes have been making up stuff about themselves probably since there have been dudes. — Christian Rudder

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them. — Elbert Hubbard

People in the high-tech sector are living with change every hour. They can get up in the morning and find themselves behind already. — Jim Pattison

A proud person is so busy looking down on others they cannot humble themselves to look up at God. — LeCrae

{...]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons. — Andrea Bouchaud

In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects. — Jane Smiley

No one is famous when they wake up in the morning, so it's nice seeing people in moments when they're just being themselves. — Elizabeth Peyton

The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — John Stuart Mill

The leaders were less willing to fight. It is always the young and impressionable who strap on the explosives and blow themselves up. — Mark Owen

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves. — Johnny Ramone

Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions. — Jimi Hendrix

I am crushing so hard on Amy Schumer. Women like her who have chosen to stand up for themselves and face the bullies are being so embraced. — Anne Hathaway

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes. — Jo Brand

If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ? — Marilyn Manson

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. — Andre Gide

If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults — Chelsea Fine

I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward. — Ice Cube

Who can protect themselves from betrayal? The day your brother wakes up and plans to do you dirty, there's no defense against that. — Ice-T

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever. — Vince Gilligan

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves. — Tom Morello

Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves with that. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened — Winston S. Churchill

When pointing out the flaws in others, people always end up talking about themselves. — Claire Chilton

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up. — Mickey Spillane

Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance. — Stephen Richards

No, I am that I am, and they that level
At my abuses, reckon up their own;
I may be straight, though they themselves be bevel.
Sonnet 121 — William Shakespeare

How many people have wanted to kill themselves, and have been content with tearing up their photograph! — Jules Renard

I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. — Patricia Reilly Giff

Oh God. I'm losing it. Everyone knows this is how criminals get caught. They add too many details and trip themselves up. — Sophie Kinsella

That was all part of giving someone a piece of your heart; they ended up taking a whole chunk of your mind and reserving it all for themselves. — Cecelia Ahern

If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens. — Howard Zinn

Up rose the ghosts of parties, of themselves when they were younger, too dumb to understand they were ecstatic. — Lauren Groff

To be honest with you, I get a little fed up with actors who act crazy to make themselves more interesting. — George Eads

When people have given up on happiness they call themselves realists. — Marty Rubin

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. — Joyce Maynard

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up. — Sheri Dew

there were no more living legends, and thus the young grew up knowing they would never become heroes themselves. — Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

some secrets kept themselves, out of a failure to stand up to the competing rumors. She — Barbara Kingsolver

No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. — Emile M. Cioran

Don't indulge in gossip ... People who throw mudballs always manage to end up getting a little on themselves. — Ann Landers

My Mum brought me up to believe that if you look after the pennies then the pounds look after themselves, and I could never do it. — Damien Hirst

I find that people who give up trying to change themselves tend to want to change other people. — Brian Ming

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything. — Clarence Darrow

Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived. — Liane Moriarty

How many more investment bankers need to show up in court before people stop incriminating themselves in writing? — Penelope Trunk

I think all mothers shine a little, you know, at least until their kids grow up enough to watch out for themselves. — Stephen King

People give up on each other long before they give up on themselves, and they do that, too. — Donna Lynn Hope

Every author these days is an award-winning novelist. Why? Because they set up an award contest and they dub themselves the winner. — Karen E. Quinones Miller

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 was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves. — Romola Garai

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

She had in point of fact by now made up her mind to accept it, but she well knew that men like to think they decide matters for themselves. — W. Somerset Maugham

If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough. — Jihan El-Tahri

They "cruise" or hold themselves up with furniture in search of the hardest and sharpest surface to bang their head on. — Jim Gaffigan

I grew up when people seemed actually to be hurting themselves for their art. Of course, some of it was phony. — Barry Hannah

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. — Van Morrison

Those who try and destroy another person's character with lies ... end up destroying themselves in the process. — Timothy Pina

The inferior put others down;
the superior lift others up;
the great are an asset to themselves and the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Sometimes I don't even bother coming up with proper words for conversation. It's not necessary; some people are content to just talk to themselves. — NoViolet Bulawayo

It was a phenomenon I noticed many years ago. Young people were just giving up every bit of information about themselves they could. — Rush Limbaugh

You can't save people from themselves. You can only try to wake them up. — Karen Marie Moning

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

Concentrate on the activities of prospecting, presenting and following-up; the sales will take care of themselves. — Brian Tracy

Children need close friends to help them grow up, to discover things about themselves and about life. They also need close friends to keep them sane — Cecelia Ahern

Up North you are holding your own. Everyone considers themselves a comedian. — Johnny Vegas

Few minded what their fellow citizens got up to as long as they themselves were left in peace. — Walter Moers

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Children need parents who will let them grow up to be themselves, but parents often have personal agendas they try to impose on their children. — Harold S. Kushner

The borrowers will always be willing to take a great deal for themselves. It's up to the lenders to show restraint, and when they lose it, watch out. — Michael Burry

There's a level of immaturity to people who just can't clean up after themselves. — Jann Wenner

I don't want any more concentration camps for animals that are cruelly treated, force-fed to fatten themselves up for our consumption. — Steve Wynn

No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves. — Zainab Salbi

You're pretty great, God, and I mean that, but if it were up to me - like if I happened to be YOU - my teeth would floss themselves. — Gregor Collins

Instead of doing what many compliant people do when they wake up and find themselves lost, she didn't leave the relationship to find herself. — Henry Cloud

Terrorism is an example of that extreme madness. People blow themselves up just to kill others. Unconscious reaction to terrorism is equal madness. — Eckhart Tolle

Now they were merely trying to fill themselves up but not with the heart, not the soul. They'd lost both those along the way ... — Linda Hogan

Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. — Thomas Browne

A hero stands up to the villain in themselves. — Ricky Maye

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously. — Tig Notaro

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

[It was] better to set up a monarchy themselves than to suffer a sedition to continue that must certainly end in one. — Plutarch

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. — Napoleon Bonaparte