Quotes About Themselves

For a fan, a selfie takes just a moment and those who dare to ask, win. But for the celeb, the seconds can add up to never having a moment to themselves.

Don't drag the Mossad into political arguments. These are people who can't defend themselves.

We expect our employees to care about the community, the company, their teammates, customers, and themselves.

In no case did the leaders proclaim the movements to be in opposition to the tsar. They held, rather, that the tsar was on their side, or that some other member of the royal family was with them, or that they themselves were the tsar.

January] 2nd. [1863] When an individual in a church or out of it becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such, take care of themselves.

Preaching is not talking to people about the Bible; it is talking to people about themselves from the Bible.

The state ought not to intervene to prevent individuals from doing things that not only are no risk to others but are of no risk to themselves either.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

No one would bring their horse into a studio, because they don't want to bring their prized animals into an environment where they wouldn't be comfortable or where they might panic and hurt themselves.

In Hollywood, I was used to being on a dirty old sound stage, and the whole crew is just scratching themselves. They don't care who you are.

Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.

Seen from this great height they were in themselves comparatively insignificant, but they at least suggested the vastness of the bastions of which they were no more than buttresses.

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

I don't understand why it's controversial for law-abiding citizens protecting themselves under the Second Amendment.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Because bankers measure their self-worth in money, and pay themselves a lot of it, they think they're fine fellows and don't need to explain themselves.

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength against himself.

Perhaps men are a trick Sa played on this world. 'All other things I shall make vast and beautiful and true to themselves,' perhaps he said. 'Men alone shall be capable of being petty and vicious and self-destructive. And for my cruelest trick of all, I shall put among them men capable of seeing these things in themselves.' Do you suppose that is what Sa did?

If men had not this delusion as to the ultra-importance of their own particular employments, I suppose that they would sit down and kill themselves. But their weakness is wearisome, particularly when the listener knows that he himself commits exactly the same sin.

I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel … I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand. The novel has to have a coherence which I don't see anymore in the lives around me.

But this was just a story they told to comfort themselves.

We think we've got great stories and characters that will lend themselves to great standalone experiences, and that's the way we're focusing on it.

Anyone who thinks they're indispensible is fooling themselves.

Principles," he said, "are what you fight for. Most men go through a lifetime unchallenged, except at the final moment. They have so few unfriendly arenas in which to test themselves.