Quotes About Themselves

Well, they're all performers, aren't they? All mild exhibitionists. They're so busy putting themselves over that they haven't time to think about anyone else. It's not that they don't like other people; they just never have a moment to consider them.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves

Now they were gathering because the world was unbearable, and they themselves were not.

Why do you think there are no gods on Mount Olympus now? They killed themselves, that's why. They were terminally bored.

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

The problem is that this fluidity is not a choice we are free to make. Despite the unifying patriotic rhetoric that permeates the United States, on some level Americans are not really fooled: at bottom, each person knows he or she must continually "reinvent themselves," which is to say, go it alone. America is the ultimate anticommunity.3

But of course, by carving out an exception for themselves, they have introduced a logical inconsistency into their system. They have stated that there is one thing (namely, their own thinking) that their system does not cover.

the zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different. --Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men

You know, I've always wondered why they call themselves 'special agents.' All FBI agents are special agents. Apparently, there are no ordinary agents in the FBI, but no one's special if everyone's special.

The Cantrip agents were more interesting. He didn't know as much about Cantrip, as it was an even newer agency than Homeland Security, having come into being when the werewolves outed themselves.