#selves

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. ↗

— Saul Williams

#does #fool #great #great deal #history

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#describe #frankness #people #themselves

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#going #includes #maturity #ourselves #produce

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#find #form #government #had #i

We need to police ourselves in the media. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#need #ourselves #police

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#enjoy #freedom #ourselves

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. ↗

— William Wordsworth

#benign #better #business #droop #gracious

I think we simply all like to project ourselves into somebody else - somebody who is better-looking, richer, smarter. It's comforting. It's escapism, and that, of course, is what the movies are supposed to be all about. Ultimately, I think it's just part of human nature to pretend. ↗

— Richard D. Zanuck

#comforting #course #else #escapism #human

We're aligning ourselves with Kerry. Our allegiance will be for peace, against war, no more deaths for oil, and for a dialogue between the government of Spain and the new Kerry administration. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#against #aligning #allegiance #between #deaths