#selves

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#admittedly #claim #great #grounds #highest

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#anything #art #best #call #does

I think my dad would make an incredible president, and it would be great if he'd run again. But personally, for our family, part of me is glad that he didn't. We lost our mother recently, and we need to focus on ourselves. ↗

— Alexandra Kerry

#dad #family #focus #glad #great

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never. ↗

— Alphonse de Lamartine

#never #ones #passions #private #public

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#come #friends #neighbors #our #ourselves

There is nothing here that's broken that can't be fixed, but it won't happen on its own. It's going to require a huge lift by the entire country of the United States of America and people on the ground taking personal responsibility for themselves. You cannot take it as a fait accompli that the city's going to come back. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#back #broken #cannot #city #come

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation. ↗

— Franz Liszt

#children #express #gypsy #her #how

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other. ↗

— George MacDonald

#friends #honest #other #ourselves #shall

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship. ↗

— Eric Massa

#bonds #buddies #conscious #conscious decision #decision