There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
In and of itself, keeping the country safe for business is not a bad thing.
~By Peter Schuyler ~
Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.
~By Robert Mondavi ~
If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
~By Thomas J. Watson ~
The question is not... if art is enough to fulfill my life, but if I am true to the path I have set for myself, if I am the best I can be in the things I do. Am I living up to the reasons I became a singer in the first place?
~By Kathleen Battle ~
I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
~By Dana Hill ~
I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.
~By Mary Oliver ~
This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.
~By Joni Mitchell ~
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
Any theory intended to describe and analyze socio-historical reality cannot restrict itself to the human spirit and disregard the totality of human nature.
~By Wilhelm Dilthey ~
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
~By Ernest Hemingway ~
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
~By William J. H. Boetcker ~
I see myself playing as long as I am partially enjoying the game and partially successful and they are paying me. But honestly, two more years is about all I can take.
~By Brett Hull ~
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being.
~By Gene Hackman ~
Now that he has disavowed as outright lies many of the stories he told himself, it's hard to know what to make of those who still insist that David Brock had it right the first time.
~By Jane Mayer ~
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
~By Herschel Walker ~
When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.
~By Christian Bale ~
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
~By Beatrix Potter ~
It's hard listening to myself.
~By Meg White ~
I threw myself into this artform because photography had given me a new sense of mission and identity.
~By Bob Anderson ~
You can't relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.
~By Timothy Dalton ~
For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
~By Barry Corbin ~
That's the show. it's like 5 minutes of science and then 10 minutes of me hurting myself.
~By Adam Savage ~
When I feel like I'm doing my best work, there is a bit of a freedom, a bit of flight that you're not so much losing yourself but you're sort of in the zone.
~By Chris Cooper ~
I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
~By Kirstie Alley ~
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
~By Ayn Rand ~
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
~By Randy Harrison ~
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
~By Alan Cohen ~
I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
~By Georg Baselitz ~
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
~By Carl Friedrich Gauss ~
Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.
~By William Lyon Mackenzie King ~
As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them.
~By Julie Walters ~
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore.
~By Grover Norquist ~
Tennis was always sort of a - a learning. It was a vehicle for me to discover a lot about myself. And the things that I sort of discovered at times I not only didn't want to see it for myself but I certainly didn't want millions of people to see it.
~By Andre Agassi ~
The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.
~By Esa-Pekka Salonen ~
I did not stop dancing; I did take two years off to get myself together.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
~By Lord Byron ~
You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what you're going to do with it.
~By Susie Bright ~
I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.
~By Isabelle Adjani ~
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
~By Frank Herbert ~
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
~By Josh Billings ~
As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
~By Tom Chapin ~
In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
~By Elliott Carter ~
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
~By Karl Kraus ~
It wasn't until I became more confident with myself and I put myself forward instead of the jokes; at first it was put the jokes out there and I'm just behind the jokes.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
~By Julie Bowen ~
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and comedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.
~By Fred Allen ~
I am honest and want to hear what the people have to say. I do not want to enrich myself in this job.
~By Nestor Kirchner ~
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
~By Dag Hammarskjold ~
The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.
~By Karl Kraus ~
When the time came to make a decision about what do in life, I found myself thinking that acting was the thing I loved to do, so I applied to drama school. And then, I didn't get in - twice.
~By Emily Watson ~
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Whenever a female takes a strong stand for herself, the majority of the time they have to really, really narrow it down to being feminine and wearing dresses and just being lipstick chic.
~By Michelle Rodriguez ~
Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.
~By Bob Nelson ~
I really believe in myself. I'm the hardest worker I know, and one of the best songwriters. There's a craft to it, and it takes a long time to hone it, and I work really hard at it.
~By Arthur Godfrey ~
Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
~By Charles Spurgeon ~
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
~By Billy Graham ~
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray; nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.
~By Jane Porter ~
One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself.
~By Lisa Loeb ~
When people say 'You're so beautiful' it makes me want to kill myself! As an actress you want to be seen for what you do, for the characters you can play, otherwise I'd be a model.
~By Eva Green ~
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
~By Fanny Brice ~
I'm passing on a tradition of which I am part. There's a long line of poets who went before me, and I'm another one, and I'm hoping to pass that on to other younger, or newer, poets than myself.
~By Diane Wakoski ~
When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.
~By Anita Hill ~
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
~By Omar Khayyam ~
He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
~By John Donne ~
One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.
~By Arthur Ashe ~
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.
~By Jim Cramer ~
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
The threat to globalization is not the wasted American dollars but Washington's readiness to mix US commercial interests with its self-appointed role as global protector.
~By William Greider ~
Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.
~By Rob Reiner ~
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
~By Peter Hall ~
Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
Don't borrow someone else's spectacles to view yourself with.
~By Simon Travaglia ~
I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.
~By Henry Fonda ~
There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand years ago and as it will be a thousand years hence.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
~By Walter Anderson ~
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself.
~By Robert MacNeil ~
I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.
~By Paul Gascoigne ~
I try to play characters who are different from myself, so I feel like this character is someone who is really different. I actually think that if I did what he did in this movie, I would get a restraining order put against me.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.
~By Forest Whitaker ~
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
~By Francis Marion Crawford ~
I don't think the way I look at myself has changed.
~By Scott Wolf ~
Some of these sketches were done at the very beginning of the Pirates project, when I was trying to find a direction for myself. That was the early sixties... maybe 61 or 62.
~By Marc Davis ~
A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
~By Gerald Jampolsky ~
Speech is civilization itself.
~By Thomas Mann ~
The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
~By Billy Graham ~
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.
~By Mary Lynn Rajskub ~
In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.
~By H. E. Bates ~
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