#himself

The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

#after #approval #control #convinces #cookie

No one ever was a great poet, that applied himself much to anything else. ↗

— William Temple

#applied #else #ever #great #himself

I feel when somebody has been playing cricket for a long time, he creates a separate identity for himself. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#creates #cricket #feel #himself #i

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#field #himself #his #individual #off

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#change #climate #common #common sense #fool

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#being #does #good #good man #himself

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#assurance #been #exposes #himself #learned

The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#another #beard #bin #channels #dad

Vote: the instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#country #fool #freeman #himself #his

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself. ↗

— James Boswell

#companion #friend #himself #loves #man