#selves

We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops. ↗

— Joschka Fischer

#committed #germany #iraq #ourselves #send

While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#bonds #challenging #children #develop #especially

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#any #art #artists #find #great

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#first #found #great #great men #i

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors. ↗

— Peter Tork

#dave #lead #mickey #most #natural

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#for the people #help #leaders #leaving #long-term

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#come #common #common thing #does #i

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