#selves

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

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#culture #idea #our #permeates #still

To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves. Nothing is often a good thing to say, and always a clever thing to say. ↗

— Will Durant

#always #clever #dishonest #good #good thing

I think children learning to cook can be such a wonderful thing. It can help build confidence, make them feel good about themselves. It helped me build my ego and even start to get acceptance at school. I'd bring things to class that I'd cooked at home. ↗

— Giada De Laurentiis

#acceptance #bring #build #children #class

We lost because we told ourselves we lost. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#lost #ourselves #told

I've often said that the most important thing you can give your children is wings. Because, you're not gonna always be able to bring food to the nest. You're... sometimes... they're gonna have to be able to fly by themselves. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#always #because #bring #children #fly

Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves. ↗

— John Tillotson

#brings #commonly #end #his #journey

It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#each #every #every time #fact #fighting

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot. ↗

— Wietse Venema

#change #even #expect #foot #i