#selves

The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country. ↗

— Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#always #change #comes #coming #country

I know now that most people are so closely concerned with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#closely #concerned #helped #i #i can

We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves. ↗

— John Oates

#other #ourselves #people #together #work

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#house #lives #made #nothing #our

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. ↗

— Barack Obama

#christian #christian nation #citizens #consider #great

So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves. ↗

— Marie Osmond

#babies #because #cause #did #fault

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#found #foundation #high #how #numerous

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#experienced #only #others #ourselves #pity

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past. ↗

— Peter Pace

#future #give #iraq #opportunity #part

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects