#selves

In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, not does it comport with our policy so to do. It is only when our rights are invaded or seriously menaced that we resent injuries or make preparation for our defence. ↗

— James Monroe

#defence #does #european #european powers #injuries

If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#even #i #much #myself #ordinary

For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people. ↗

— Thomas More

#daily #folly #go #houses #into

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

— Van Morrison

#famous person #get #i #me #morning

The networks found themselves having to compete for an increasingly Balkanized audience. ↗

— Roger Mudd

#compete #found #having #increasingly #networks

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#affairs #bring #britain #call #change

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

#advancing #african #backwards #been #being

Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ↗

— John Muir

#coming #day #directions #every #far

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#clash #colors #just #others #reconcile

Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#clubs #country #establishment #journalists #outside