Quotes About Themselves

The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.

The fearful seek to serve themselves by mastering the world, while the fearless seek to serve the world by mastering themselves.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

Denver has smart and energetic crowds that appreciate good comedy and don't take themselves too seriously.

Marvel is run by some very smart people, and they seem to pride themselves on the fact that they don't just find talent, they groom talent.

when everyone had backups of themselves scattered around the galaxy, it required a vastly disproportionate effort to inconvenience someone, let alone kill them.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

They had scorned the title scientist and dubbed themselves reality speculators.

Ah, intellectuals. And you wanted me to sign one up. What is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?" Corelli asked. "Is it to fool the world or to fool themselves?" [ Carlos Ruiz Zafón ? The Angel's Game ]

Eric Schmidt from Google is one of my favorite mentors. And Eric would always say this very humbling thing that's really true, which is, he would say, 'Good executives confuse themselves when they convince themselves that they actually do things.'

He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.

MANY poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.

Alcohol is the reduced form of spirit. Therefore, many people, lacking spirit, take to drink. They fill themselves with alcohol.

Apparently you haven't gotten the memo. I am the Ice Man. Rude, honest to the point of brutal and emotionally unavailable. Women aren't exactly throwing themselves at me." A pause. "Anymore.

Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, 'Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.' I'm no god and I'll contend no longer.

People sometimes mistake their own shortcomings for those of society and want to fix the Cities because they don't know how to fix themselves.

A lot of actors are frustrated because they want to do things that are different and test themselves. Character actors are always looking for something the opposite of what they did.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

I never met the boy, or his parents, but I see kids like him every day." Sonia tells Connor. "Their world is shattered, and they're so desperate for validation that they'd blow themselves up to get it. Any parent who disowns that boy after what he did, and didn't do . . . doesn't deserve to have children at all, much less a child to give away.

don't be like so many writers, don't be like so many thousands of people who call themselves writers, don't be dull and boring and pretentious, don't be consumed with self- love. the libraries of the world have yawned themselves to sleep over your kind. don't add to that. don't do it.

open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'.

I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

New York cops are very specific in terms of the way they talk and the way they handle themselves.