#elves

No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#great #great person #person #themselves #thought

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

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? ↗

— Liam Neeson

#ask #catholic #consciously #day #doing

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves. ↗

— Susan Olsen

#care #government #i #i believe #i believe in

The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#conventional #freeing #ourselves #releasing #society

Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#go #matter #modern #most #outside

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#everybody #i #i believe #responsible #themselves

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#how #neighbor #our #ourselves #same

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#century #challenge #change #climate #climate change

Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#going #happen #happy #heat #less