#selves

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'm just one of the kids, and all because the students at Hamilton Heights High School listened to the facts, educated their parents and themselves, and believed in me. ↗

— Ryan White

#believed #educated #facts #hamilton #heights

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you? ↗

— Walt Whitman

#against #aside #disputed #great #learned

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#contradict #other #people #themselves #well

The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#beauty #departure #independence #rely #themselves

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#each #kingdom #know #more #our

Only the shallow know themselves. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#only #shallow #themselves

Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#aspirations #banks #because #begin #community

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