#selves

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#describe #others #see #tact #themselves

Nations fight against nations, in marriages people fight against each other, children fight against each other. We are in warfare, in a national warfare, and in warfare with each other and with ourselves. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#children #each #fight #marriages #national

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves. ↗

— Ben Stein

#bought #credit #default #did #funds

The independence of the United States is not only more precious to ourselves but to the world than any single possession. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#independence #more #only #ourselves #possession

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#guides #manners #morals #others #our

We can't fool ourselves that they will ever be enough to overthrow Capitalism. If we're serious about that we need to organise ourselves in our workplaces and communities, making the links with other workers internationally. ↗

— John Blair

#capitalism #communities #enough #ever #fool

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want. ↗

— Nelson Boswell

#find #must #ourselves #out #really

He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#him #makes #making #people #pleased

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#else #everybody #folk #folk singer #grab

Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. ↗

— Isak Dinesen

#business #drink #drunk #get #heartless