#selves

We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#endowed #feeling #frequently #instruments #many

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#am #ancestors #cultural #derive #feeling

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

We always kept believing in ourselves and our team and the car. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#believing #car #kept #our #ourselves

I'm fascinated by how much we, as women, have to subjugate and hide ourselves in order to get on in the world. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#get #hide #how #i #much

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. ↗

— John Dryden

#grape #hides #intoxication #like #others

Just like every show has a tone, every show has different people on it playing different games. I don't say 'game' in a pejorative sense, I just mean, these are different stories that we tell ourselves when we go to work. ↗

— David Duchovny

#different people #every #game #games #go

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#example #expense #known #ourselves #prior

Quakers almost as good as colored. They call themselves friends and you can trust them every time. ↗

— Harriet Tubman

#call #colored #every #every time #friends

I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#because #books #find #hope #i