All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.
~By John Woolman ~
I try to not get to the point where one is making wallpaper, or simply painting money. I want to make sure that I am at least trying to weigh myself down, that there's a challenge each time.
~By Martin Mull ~
You know, I have some issues. But I just love to play different characters all the time, and I try not to repeat myself too much.
~By Rachel McAdams ~
I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations.
~By Daniel Craig ~
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
~By Victor Hugo ~
You just have to keep believing in yourself.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger.
~By Hu Shih ~
Well, yeah. At a certain point, you've got to be really honest with yourself. Like, 'Why am I doing this? What are my motivations?' Like, if you get into it because you want to be famous? Then you've got a long row to hoe. But if you really feel like it's a labour of love and it's something you're actually legitimately good at, then it's not that hard to keep plugging away.
~By Will Arnett ~
I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.
~By Jensen Ackles ~
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today.
~By Angela Davis ~
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
~By Ariel Durant ~
At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
~By Carlo Collodi ~
Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don't listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
~By Sidney Sheldon ~
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 ~
My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.
~By Rene Magritte ~
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~By Sophia Loren ~
This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.
~By Voltaire ~
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
~By Emily Watson ~
Well, one of the problems of working on a story with a character that sacred in the religions of the world or in a picture about that person, is that you have to forget about that and play it as real as you can because you can't look at yourself and judge yourself.
~By Rod Steiger ~
Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
~By Alexander Walker ~
I'm relatively physically adept and I like throwing myself around. Once, twice, but then you get to nine, ten, eleven and to try and make it look realistic all the time, that's not very pleasant.
~By Marton Csokas ~
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
~By Luigi Pirandello ~
You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.
~By Ella Maillart ~
I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!
~By James McAvoy ~
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
~By Samuel Butler ~
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
~By Martin Heidegger ~
When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.
~By George Mason ~
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.
~By Cesare Pavese ~
Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
~By David Gerrold ~
Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders.
~By Daniel Webster ~
When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.
~By Layne Staley ~
Yet, the Universe is real enough to the conscious beings in it, which are as unreal as it is itself.
~By H. P. Blavatsky ~
But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
~By Jane Fonda ~
I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
~By Karl Rove ~
I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.
~By Fiona Shaw ~
Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.
~By Dawn Fraser ~
I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself .
~By Anne Bronte ~
Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
~By Francis Quarles ~
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
~By John Baldacci ~
Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.
~By Adolf Hitler ~
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
~By Mitch Albom ~
The reason that I'm an actor, or an artist, is ultimately because I'm trying to paint a self-portrait, and the most complete and beautiful self-portrait that you can.
~By Terrence Howard ~
And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good.
~By Lester Bangs ~
Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best.
~By Joseph Cook ~
I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
~By Jacques-Henri Lartigue ~
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
~By Thom Mayne ~
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.
~By Shelley Duvall ~
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.
~By Agnes Macphail ~
My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
~By Ani DiFranco ~
This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.
~By Douglas Hofstadter ~
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
~By Kenny Dalglish ~
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
~By Armistead Maupin ~
The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
~By Anna Jameson ~
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions.
~By Jeremy Northam ~
Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!
~By Shunryu Suzuki ~
Murder begins where self-defense ends.
~By Georg Buchner ~
I consider myself a student of Hollywood.
~By Rob Morrow ~
And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!
~By Courtney Love ~
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
~By Rene Magritte ~
Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.
~By Joseph Priestley ~
Lastly, he must remember that he himself hath no exemption from the common lot, but that he is bound by the same laws of mortality, and liable to the same ailments and afflictions with his fellows.
~By Thomas Sydenham ~
Well, I went through some emotionally abusive relationships and allowed myself to not be properly respected as a lady, as a human being even, though I tried everything I knew to be a lady.
~By Gloria Gaynor ~
There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
~By Alfred Adler ~
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 ~
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.
~By Byron White ~
If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
~By Saint Augustine ~
What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.
~By Bob Kane ~
You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
I learned very early that our health is always impaired by some excess either of food or abstinence, and I never had any physician except myself.
~By Giacomo Casanova ~
The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.
~By Thorstein Veblen ~
The most wonderful discovery made by scientists is science itself.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~
No! on Human Rights and Freedom, on a subject that is as self-evident as that two and two make four, there is no need of any written authority.
~By Ernestine L. Rose ~
They feel assured, as to yourself, that if the option remain with you, it is but a question of time and of form when and how a proclamation of emancipation will be issued.
~By Robert Dale Owen ~
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realise you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
~By Fay Weldon ~
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
~By Milan Kundera ~
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
~By Kevin Bacon ~
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each to himself. And that is the most complicated thing on earth.
~By Edward Steichen ~
I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.
~By Meryl Streep ~
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
But by taking the time away, getting myself off the treadmill, and just slowing down and learning, I felt I had so much more to give back. And maybe that was something that needed to happen for all of us.
~By Lindsey Buckingham ~
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
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