#selves

When I was a kid in Houston, we were so poor we couldn't afford the last 2 letters, so we called ourselves po'. ↗

— George Foreman

#called #houston #i #kid #last

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#down #farther #gone #got #influence

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team. ↗

— Michael Wilbon

#identify #people #sports #team #their

And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss. ↗

— Lea Thompson

#definitely #gravitate #i #laughter #out

Cruelty towards others is always also cruelty towards ourselves. ↗

— Paul Tillich

#always #cruelty #others #ourselves #towards

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#despise #get #never #others #out

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#first #found #great #great men #i

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors. ↗

— Peter Tork

#dave #lead #mickey #most #natural

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#aware #been #culture #function #high