#ourselves

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#first phase #funded #i #ourselves #phase

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#british #chinese #chinese people #enslaving #free

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#emancipation #everywhere #improvement #measures #only

But seek till ye find, and, whatever ye find for the present, let your last act be to lay and leave yourselves on the righteousness of His Son, expecting life through His name, according to the promise of the Father. ↗

— Donald Cargill

#act #expecting #father #find #his

You want to come home from a tournament with a winner's medal. That's not the fans or the media putting us under pressure, that's the pressure we put ourselves under. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#fans #home #medal #media #ourselves

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#blown #earth #face #far #haven

Today, the biggest challenge we must meet is the one we present to ourselves. To not become a nation that places entitlement ahead of accomplishment. To not become a country that places comfortable lies ahead of difficult truths. To not become a people that thinks so little of ourselves that we demand no sacrifice from each other. ↗

— Chris Christie

#ahead #become #biggest #biggest challenge #challenge

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#adapt #exert #first #freedom #fruitful

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#incapacity #kill #may #our #ourselves

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created