Sometimes comedy can be, like, negative and just the worst parts of ourselves coming out.
We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.
We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.
If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
Chemically speaking or biologically, we research things, but we don't know half of them. We only know our half of it - symbolically - and we don't know ourselves more than half.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
Heaven fashioned us of nothing; and we strive to bring ourselves to nothing.
Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.
If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can never be alienating; it can only be an expression of our humanity.
We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.
No one can disgrace us but ourselves.
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude... we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.
I would obviously like to have been arriving in Valencia with the title still up for grabs, let's not kid ourselves, but even though Valentino has won, the season is not over for me.
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
The beauty of Judaism is that it demands we ask questions, especially of ourselves.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
Even as we enumerate their shortcomings, the rigor of raising children ourselves makes clear to us our mothers' incredible strength. We fear both. If they are not strong, who will protect us? If they are not imperfect, how can we equal them?
Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Often we don't even know what we think ourselves about people in our lives.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
Dying, we tell ourselves, is like going to sleep. This figure of speech occurs very commonly in everyday thought and language, as well as in the literature of many cultures and many ages. It was apparently quite common even in the time of the ancient Greeks.
Music transcends language. BTS communicates with our fans by staying true to ourselves and believing in music every day.
The novel, as a genre, was once considered a diversion every bit as frivolous as Facebook, but over the years, we've managed to convince ourselves that reading fiction is as important to our mental digestion as fresh fruits and vegetables are to the processes that take place a little further down.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
