He who fears to be out of the mode does not deserve to belong to himself.
At 5 years old, I saw 'Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein,' and I was so scared when Costello sat himself down in the lap of the monster, not realizing where he was. My friends teased me. They were older, 8 years old. And my goal was to become a mad scientist and get back at them. And here I am, mad as hell!
God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.
Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.
There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
I met Pierre Curie for the first time in the spring of the year 1894... A Polish physicist whom I knew, and who was a great admirer of Pierre Curie, one day invited us together to spend the evening with himself and his wife.
With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.'
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
I interviewed Putin himself in 2000, shortly after he took over as president.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.
There's several different forms of executive privilege. The one that is most absolute would be close advisers talking to the president himself.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.
I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
There is no force like success, and that is why the individual makes all effort to surround himself throughout life with the evidence of it; as of the individual, so should it be of the nation.
If a person goes to his job with a firm determination to give of himself the best of which he is capable, that job no matter what it is takes on dignity and importance.
I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
