#ours

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

#always #because #blame #brothers #change

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#certain #create #despot #despotic #government

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation. ↗

— Charles Hermite

#am #both #creation #divine #entire

We are all in this together, by ourselves. ↗

— Lily Tomlin

#together

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charities #course #did #drop #five

Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours. ↗

— Don Hewitt

#back #commentary #conventions #give #news

For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country. ↗

— Elin Hilderbrand

#country #course #ended #going #graduate

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#come #countries #neighbours #other #our

You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under threat, on the edge of your seat and pushing yourself. Win one and you want to win more. It's never-ending. ↗

— Damon Hill

#comfortable #edge #feel #more #never

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive