Our strategy is to defend ourselves against an occupying army and against settlers and settlements.

If what we think of ourselves were true, the planet would overflow with geniuses.

If the white man gives you anything – just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.

We’re all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I’ll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It’s like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We’re trying to...

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no...

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Nothing seems to matter but ourselves. That’s not how I was brought up. I don’t recognize the country I live in anymore.

I was reared a Catholic but I think every day we ask ourselves, not consciously, what are we doing on this planet? What’s it all about?

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at – the excellences of our stage performance.

We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.

Our stresses, anxieties, pains, and problems arise because we do not see the world, others, or even ourselves as worthy of love. (9)

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, they wanted us to mold ourselves to them, which we refused.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

I’ll just quote myself for now; actually, I’ll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling ‘pissy.'”Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society...

We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the...

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

For too long, humanity has acted with an outrageous lack of responsibility. We wanted everything for ourselves: greed, really. We failed to look at the overall picture and did not take into consideration those with...

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it’s very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as ‘A Great Big World,’ and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if...

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

The unconditional love that God gives us when we are in relationship with him frees us and sustains us; we no longer feel the need to prove ourselves according to worldly standards, we are fine...

Our response has been, ‘Well, let’s then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table.’ That hasn’t happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

We appealed to the conscience of the world. The world has no conscience. We have no one but ourselves.”The fight. The struggle. The historic destiny. The return of the people. The cause: life therefore having...

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.

We’re all the harshest judges of ourselves.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that’s just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don’t...

Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.

What is the truth?’ he asked. ‘We place faith in ourselves,’ replied Altaïr (…) ‘We see the world as it really is, and hope that one day all mankind might see the same.’‘What is the...

I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We’ve kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods, most of which people don’t need. I’m anti-consumerism; I own four pairs of...

We need a place in which we may flourish and be ourselves.

I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.

I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Our entire life – consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

They were looking for a stable, but we didn’t have one. In fact, we weren’t very stable ourselves.

If we do not discipline ourselves the world will do it for us.

Forgiveness truly brings freedom. If we don’t forgive, bitterness and anger build to the point where not only are we hurting ourselves, but in the process can hurt others around us.

At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.

We need to stop separating ourselves by how dark or how light we are.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

I believe it is important that we Japanese write a constitution for ourselves that would reflect the shape of the country we consider desirable in the 21st century.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.