#himself

But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart. ↗

— Anne Hutchinson

#after #atheism #begged #did #heart

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent. ↗

— Christopher Isherwood

#bet #compromised #does #entertainment #entertainment industry

If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself. ↗

— Kris Kristofferson

#better #god #himself #i #i think

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#buys #filmmaker #freedom #himself #novelist

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others. ↗

— David Seabury

#considerate #himself #others #seldom #who

You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#cannot #creativity #discover #good #good writer

I can do something physically the other guy can't. I know the other guy has not dedicated himself the way I did. ↗

— Karl Malone

#did #guy #himself #i #i can

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#both #characterizes #evil #exceptional #forced

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed. ↗

— Maimonides

#balance #deed #destroyed #does #equal

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

#another #capacity #certain #discover #during