#selves

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves but means to other ends which in their turn are means and so ad infinitum. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#economic #end #ends #infinitum #man

Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes? ↗

— Mohamed El-Erian

#ask #grow #how #investments #investors

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves. ↗

— George Eliot

#god #hand #mercy #none #ourselves

We do this basically for ourselves. People appreciate it, which is cool, but I think they appreciate that we're doing it for ourselves. We're doing it our way, and how people like it is not up to us. We like it. ↗

— James Hetfield

#basically #cool #doing #how #i

No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#great #great person #person #themselves #thought

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#before #better #day #done #every

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

#honest #keep #themselves #writers