#himself

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#bill #bill gates #computing #direction #gates

A man is truly free, even here in this embodied state, if he knows that God is the true agent and he by himself is powerless to do anything. ↗

— Ramakrishna

#anything #embodied #even #free #god

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#himself #unable #unfair #writer

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. ↗

— John Milton

#bright #centre #clear #dark #day

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. ↗

— John Milton

#fears #himself #king #more #passions

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself. ↗

— John Milton

#himself #shallow

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby. ↗

— John Milton

#character #deeds #himself #his #man

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#condemn #divine #generosity #god #himself