#himself

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#any #attention #care #common #culture

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

#few #few men #foolish #goodness #hence

This great oracle of the East India Company himself admits that, if there is no power vested in the Court of Directors but that of the patronage, there is really no government vested in them at all. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#court #directors #east #government #great

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#barely #child #himself #into #language

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#city #fairy #fancy #finding #fled

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#heads #himself #ignorant #knows #lecture

Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#finally #himself #place #shall #sun

Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy. ↗

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

#great #himself #man #only #probably

I find it very easy playing Bond. I think he's hilarious. He gets himself into some extraordinarily funny situations. ↗

— Daniel Craig

#easy #extraordinarily #find #funny #gets

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#control #even #had #himself #his