#selves

We are like horses who hurt themselves as soon as they pull on their bits - and we bow our heads. We even lose consciousness of the situation, we just submit. Any re-awakening of thought is then painful. ↗

— Simone Weil

#bits #bow #consciousness #even #heads

Unfortunately, there are writers whose only concern is how good they could make themselves look on a title. ↗

— Len Wein

#could #good #how #look #make

I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? ↗

— George Wald

#i #i do #involving #know #molecule

The defense of our rights and our dignity, as well as efforts never to let ourselves to be overcome by the feeling of hatred - this is the road we have chosen. ↗

— Lech Walesa

#defense #dignity #efforts #feeling #hatred

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ↗

— Alice Walker

#how #know #me #mothers #must

My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap. ↗

— Alice Walker

#against #coconut #collapsing #defending #father

Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life. ↗

— Vera Wang

#against #although #always #anyone #better

Let an audience be able to find it themselves without spoonfeeding it. ↗

— Patrick Warburton

#audience #find #themselves #without

No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon. ↗

— Chris Ware

#bad #blames #cartoon #might #painting

Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#disagree #falsehoods #only #quarrel #themselves