#himself

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#behalf #blow #bound #each #helps

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

#away #decent #decent man #even #every

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself. ↗

— Marcel Pagnol

#himself #his #keep #man #most

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ↗

— Alan Paton

#bring #broke #could #himself #kill

Bond was how Fleming saw himself; the sardonic, cruel mouth, the hard, tight skinned face. ↗

— Terence Young

#cruel #face #fleming #hard #himself

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#communicating #dreaming #empty #even #her

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ↗

— Georg Groddeck

#breathes #brought #eats #exactly #forget

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#affairs #brain #doubt #foreign #foreign affairs

As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?' ↗

— Richard Whately

#anything #begin #believe #bring #difference

General Petraeus is not a miracle worker. He can not be successful unless the president creates greater confidence within his own team about the decisions which the president has himself made. ↗

— Jim Talent

#confidence #creates #decisions #general #greater