#selves

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#back #basically #came #capability #certainly

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#against #ambition #another #attack #first

Every one of us have things that we believe about ourselves when nobody else is looking, nobody else is listening, nobody else is monitoring what we're doing. We believe things about ourself. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#believe #doing #else #every #listening

When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#ask #both #clearly #employers #fairness

There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive. ↗

— Danica McKellar

#because #down #epidemic #makes #middle

There was a friend of ours who worked with a girl who had said she would consider being a surrogate. We met her and right away she was awesome. We were looking for someone who could take care of themselves and it was pretty clear she could. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#awesome #being #care #clear #consider

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#envy #forbidden #identify #illegal #need

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find. ↗

— James A. Michener

#fail #find #journey #make #matter

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#company #fear #hope #off #people