#selves

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public. ↗

— Marquis de Sade

#compensate #cruel #discretion #display #employ

There are certainly delays in this year's agreed program, and we must quickly catch up. Let's not kid ourselves, there is still big waste in the public sector, and it must stop. ↗

— Antonis Samaras

#big #catch #certainly #delays #kid

Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#attractive #being #call #cannot #themselves

A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. ↗

— Dan Savage

#animates #capacity #fear #gay #huge

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

#love #many #others #people #themselves

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#around #beauty #because #brains #brilliance

When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white. ↗

— Patricia Sun

#black and white #go #information #lie #never

There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft. ↗

— Cass Sunstein

#clients #craft #instruments #lawyers #pride

Critics might contend that putting former private-sector CEOs in the president's Cabinet places the fox in the henhouse. But it's unlikely such executives would expose themselves to the headaches if they weren't genuinely motivated by the call to service. ↗

— John Sununu

#call #ceos #contend #critics #executives

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves. ↗

— Ethan Suplee

#as far as #big #definitely #egos #far