Quotes with ourselves

Quotes 281 till 300 of 578.

  • Beatrice Webb Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Laurence Sterne Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Paul Cézanne Right now a moment is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate. give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.
    Paul Cézanne
    French painter (1839 - 1906)
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  • Burnie Burns Rooster Teeth has always had a big following in the gamer community, and we are lifelong gamers ourselves.
    Burnie Burns
    American writer, actor, producer and director (1973 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Will Rogers So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Marquis de Sade So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Some of the reason why we marry the wrong people is that we don't really understand ourselves.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Maya Angelou Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Willa Cather Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • William John Bennett Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.
    William John Bennett
    American politician, and political theorist (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Pierre Charron The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.
    Pierre Charron
    French philosopher (1541 - 1603)
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  • John Dewey The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Willem De Kooning The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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