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Quotes About Ourselves

Film is more than the twentieth-century art. It's another part of the twentieth-century mind. It's the world seen from inside. We've come to a certain point in the history of film. If a thing can be filmed, the film is implied in the thing itself. This is where we are. The twentieth century is on film. You have to ask yourself if there's anything about us more important than the fact that we're constantly on film, constantly watching ourselves.
~ Don DeLillo
Remember this well. There are two kind of fights. As long as we place ourselves in battle, we must always know the difference: fights to defend life... and fights to defend pride.
~ Tite Kubo
Our policy is very simple. The Jewish state was set up to defend Jewish lives, and we always reserve the right to defend ourselves.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves.
~ George Madison Adams
I'm aware there are certain products that are being advertised - food products - with 'no chemicals whatsoever.' Well, that would be pretty hard to arrange, since everything around us is made up of atoms and molecules - chemicals - including ourselves.
~ Francis Collins
Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.
~ Burnie Burns
There was so much we had done to ourselves, so much we said in our sessions that our hearts were rent with sorrow. There is so much that happens to the human heart that is in the realm of the unthinkable, the unknowable, the unbearable. (95)
~ Robert Goolrick
Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord. Otherwise, we tend to forget about entreating him. For some reason we want to carry on by ourselves. H
~ Jim Cymbala
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
~ Jim Morrison
At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country.
~ James Monroe
We are lucky to have a big fan base and that we can support ourselves doing live shows.
~ Fred Schneider
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
~ Ramsey Clark
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
~ David R. Brower
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.
~ Louis Theroux
and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself.
~ Louisa May Alcott
As we grow, we lose our belief in our progenitors's superhuman nature. They shrivel into more or less unimpressive men and women. Apollo turns out to be Oeagrus, god and Joseph the carpenter end up being one and the same. The gods we worship, we discover, are not different from ourselves.
~ Salman Rushdie
Consider that fact that, being nothing in ourselves, we cannot, without divine assistance, accomplish the smallest good or advance the smallest step toward Heaven.
~ Lorenzo Scupoli
There's surprising relief and regeneration in finding ourselves within a moment of genuine grace, however small or temporary it may be.
~ Darrell Calkins
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn
~ John Berryman
I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
~ Ruth Negga
The idea was to make a movie ourselves with everyone playing a cameo role. Preferably before we all go, 'cos poor old Charlie Wilson was murdered, and of course Buster has gone.
~ Ronald Biggs
We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present'...'Then maybe we're not mourning the future,' I said. 'We're mourning ourselves.
~ Robyn Schneider
Dreams are deformed reflections of ourselves - less stable and more ungraspable than we are, upon which we in our turn assume the right to reflect upon and to determine.
~ Roger Caillois
tutti gli altri hanno cattive maniere; noi abbiamo ogni tanto cattivi momenti. Tutti gli altri sono maleducati; noi talvolta siamo un po' distratti.
~ Lynne Truss