#selves

What might be good for ratings can be bad for the country. The hard-core partisans are self-segregating themselves into separate political realities. But the majority of Americans are starting to wake up to the game. ↗

— John Avlon

#country #game #good #into #majority

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves. ↗

— Gary Barlow

#artists #bit #feels #getting #headlines

A habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression. ↗

— Joel Barlow

#destroys #discerning #disuse #forces #habitual

It didn't matter what we did or where we did it as long as we were together. We knew we'd found what most people either pursue in years of futile search or dismiss as a fantasy at the outset: the missing half of ourselves. The real thing. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#dismiss #either #fantasy #found #futile

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

We all perform our lives in a way. And the actor is a perfect metaphor to get at that theme of 'how do we find our authentic selves?' And that we all - whether we're actors or not - perform ourselves. As a way of searching. As a way of fumbling around and trying to say, is this my voice? Is this who I am? ↗

— Annette Bening

#am #around #authentic #find #get

To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. ↗

— Elizabeth Bibesco

#even #know #lives #others #ourselves

Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night. ↗

— Rupert Brooke

#cities #like #night #reveal #themselves

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#find #know #ourselves #position #remarkable

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up. ↗