#selves

No truly great person ever thought themselves so. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#great #great person #person #themselves #thought

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ↗

— George H. Mead

#interests #nation #our #ourselves #primal

There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#before #better #day #done #every

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#find #fit #image #love #love is

Writers don't have to keep themselves honest. They have to keep themselves accurate. ↗

— John Metcalf

#honest #keep #themselves #writers

Standing near the door, we dipped our fingers in the holy water, crossed and blessed ourselves, and proceeded up to the sleeping-room, in the usual order, two by two. ↗

— Maria Monk

#crossed #dipped #door #fingers #holy

The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

#fight #only #our #people #rhythm

How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

#how #neighbor #our #ourselves #same

If we invest in researching and developing energy technology, we'll do some real good in the long run, rather than just making ourselves feel good today. But climate change is not the only challenge of the 21st century, and for many other global problems we have low-cost, durable solutions. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#century #challenge #change #climate #climate change