He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
My father was the child of academics and was probably destined to become an academic himself but vetoed that idea. Bailed, dropped out of graduate school and just went to work for an insurance company. But the house was full of books and music and all of that.
Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.
This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.
You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.
A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
The man who has sufficient power over himself to wait until his nature has recovered its even balance is the truly wise man, but such beings are seldom met with.
Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.
We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.
Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, on some level, had a father who potentially was not around and he learned what he knew by himself in the back yard, with bugs and animals. He's not comfortable being a supervisor and that's his problem.
I think that Peter Mandelson, particularly in relation to the issue of policing, made a huge mess of it. He allowed himself to be manipulated by the securocrats within the British establishment.
What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.
Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.
An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.
I began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the presidency and that if the cancer was not removed the president himself would be killed by it.
Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.
The writer has to force himself to work. He has to make his own hours and if he doesn't go to his desk at all there is nobody to scold him.
Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.
Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
I saw an Elvis Presley movie Jailhouse Rock, where he gets out of jail and makes his own records and takes them to the radio stations himself. And then, he puts records in the store. After seeing that, I made records an put them in stores.
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.
