#selves

Therefore, every country has to understand that fighting against international terrorism is not for the sake of the United States, but for the sake of themselves, and, to a larger extent, in the name of stability of international relations. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#country #every #extent #fighting #international

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.' ↗

— Lao Tzu

#did #good #good leader #great #leader

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me. ↗

— Judith Moore

#anyone #feel #i #keep #me

AIDS is a judgment we have brought upon ourselves. ↗

— Mary Whitehouse

#brought #judgment #ourselves #upon

I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality. ↗

— Diet Eman

#lying-to-ourselves #pity #reality #suffering #diet

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. ↗

— August Wilson

#blacks #custodians #experience #had #operate

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive? ↗

— William Booth

#attention #concentrated #desperate #gospel #keep

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. ↗

— Fulton Oursler

#crucify #fear #future #many #ourselves

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#build #had #insects #like #look

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#allowances #believable #detailed #fabric #i