Quotes with himself

Quotes 141 till 160 of 795.

  • Amy Lowell Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Buffalo Bill As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Thomas à Kempis As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Richard Whately As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, ''What is truth?''
    Richard Whately
    British writer (1787 - 1863)
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  • Adam Clarke As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Vaclav Havel As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Albert Camus At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alfred Noyes At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.
    Alfred Noyes
    English poet, short-story writer and playwright (1880 - 1958)
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  • Anthony Weiner At a time when the GOP is playing games with the debt limit, a member of the Supreme Court is refusing to recuse himself from matters he has a financial interest in, and middle class incomes are stagnant, many want to change the subject. I don't. This was a prank, and a silly one. I'm focused on my work.
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Carlo Collodi At such a loving invitation, Pinocchio, with one leap from the back of the orchestra, found himself in the front rows. With another leap, he was on the orchestra leader's head. With a third, he landed on the stage.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Brendan I. Koerner Barkley was the first of many American skyjackers whose primary interest was money; by 1972, the majority of the nation's hijackings would involve demands for ransom. Barkley himself was declared incompetent to stand trial in November 1971, at which point he was committed to a psychiatric hospital in Georgia.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before, Bokonon tells us. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • John Powell Blessed is he who has learned to laugh at himself, for he shall never cease to be entertained.
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Sir Walter Scott Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Anne Hutchinson But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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