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Quotes About Himself

He] prepared to forget his distress by flinging himself...into 'the vortex of pleasure.
~ Gaston Leroux
Then he thought himself absurd, got into bed again and blew out the candle. The eyes reappeared.
~ Gaston Leroux
Redemption, salvation, and restoration are not God's ultimate goal. These He performs for the sake of something greater: namely, the enjoyment He has in glorifying Himself.
~ John Piper
My personal opinion is that an actor shouldn't bother himself about expanding his market. He or she should just do good films.
~ Nani
My grandfather has a whole lot of respect for Coach Carroll and the way he handled himself and the contributions he made to the 49ers organization.
~ Sean McVay
Every gift of God is but a harbinger of his greatest and only sufficing gift—that of himself.
~ George MacDonald
he knew he dared not sleep, not even doze, or he would lose track of his mission and time itself. He
~ Jory Sherman
What is there that makes my life worth preserving? "I love you," said Elphaba. "So that's that then, and that's it," he answered her, and himself. "And I love you. So I promise to be careful." Careful of us both, he thought. So he stalked her again. Love makes hunters of us all.
~ Gregory Maguire
He talks like me when I'm pretending." Matt deepened his voice, "Like this - I'm Spiderman." I stared down at Matthew. "Well, you're right, Matt," I said. "He is pretending." "But who is he pretending to be?" Matt asked. "Himself," I said.
~ Siri Hustvedt
There's something so sweet about him when he's like this, though I guess that sweet is one word he won't want to hear used about himself.", Loving Summer by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
Know what a loner is? He's a born cripple. He's a cripple because the only person he can live with is himself. It's his life, the way he wants to live. It's all for him.
~ Kirk Douglas
See that? A guy can't jump around in his underwear and make a spectacle of himself without the ladies acting like he's some kind of guy running around in his underwear making a spectacle of himself.
~ Brian Michael Bendis
He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight.
~ Ian Fleming
a story is a letter the author writes to himself
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Trouble always feels personal. But it doesn't mean that God doesn't care about you. That He's out to get you. In fact, the opposite is true. God deliberately put Himself in the way of the ultimate tragedy to save you. That's what grace is...and frankly, He uses trouble to show you Himself.
~ Susan May Warren
The purpose and cause of the incarnation was that He might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite it to the love of Himself.
~ Peter Abelard
The timid man calls himself cautious, the sordid man thrifty.
~ Publilius Syrus
He smiled to himself. Through many centuries and many incarnations, he had learned one universal truth: bitches love them some cushions.
~ Christopher Moore
A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
~ Lisa Kirk
For God would in nothing fail to endow a being who was to be next to Himself with a liberty of this kind.
~ Tertullian
Heredity is no more than the material from which man builds himself. It is no more than the stones that are, or are not, refused and rejected by the builder. But the builder himself is not built of stones.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Later—and for the rest of his life—James will struggle to piece words to this feeling, and he will never quite manage to say, even just to himself, what he really means. At this moment he can think only one thing: how was it possible, he wonders, to have been so wrong.
~ Celeste Ng
He told the boy that although he was huérfano still he must cease his wanderings and make for himself some place in the world because to wander in this way would become for him a passion and by this passion he would become estranged from men and so ultimately from himself.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself
~ Jane Austen