Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient...

I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It’s an incredibly nourishing process; it’s probably the closest I come to having a religion.

When people don’t have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this – attack ourselves – every hour of our lives.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Women are hard on themselves.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It’s a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on...

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.

Women who have strong identities, who know themselves, really inspire me.

I’ve been telling anyone willing to listen that banks have a tendency to sit on time bombs while convincing themselves that they are conservative and nonvolatile.

Confident people have a way of carrying themselves that makes others more attracted to them.

I have so many questions about love. How do you win at it? Especially if you’re in a relationship with an impossible person? What if you believe in someone who’s completely untrustworthy, who at their...

You don’t leave people who can’t defend themselves.

Everyone needs some time to themselves.

Autism doesn’t have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful,...

I was frustrated for a long time with my colleagues in the business school world and with so many management authors who didn’t really see themselves as innovators. They were glorified journalists.

Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe… to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.

No one ever really ‘learns’ from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

You know how there are some stars out there who know how to market themselves? I don’t have that.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

It’s a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

I understand the worries of many – not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping...

Why would any parent want their kid on their health-care plan when they are 26? Parents want their kids to grow up and take care of themselves. A 26-year-old is an adult.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.

Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man can think of the Queen of the angels, during the...

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them – there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.

The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television...

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

Earlier ages fortified themselves behind the sovereign state, behind protectionism and militarism.

No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

I want to do movies that I’m proud of where my kids, at some point, can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make...

People are constantly not feeling, but numbing themselves, either through medication or playing on their phones. If you start feeling bad, it’s like, ‘Distract! Distract! Put on Storage Wars!’ And I know because I’m guilty...

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take...

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God’s word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

The rigid cause themselves to be broken; the pliable cause themselves to be bound.

I can’t stand cruel people. And if I see people doing something mean to somebody else just to make themselves feel important, it really gets me mad.

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in...

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person’s right to express themselves.

They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Anyone who thinks they’re indispensible is fooling themselves.

Parliament must not be told a direct untruth, but it’s quite possible to allow them to mislead themselves.

Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.

The question isn’t, ‘What do we want to know about people?’, It’s, ‘What do people want to tell about themselves?’