#selves

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves. ↗

— John Flavel

#brethren #declaim #easier #mortify #others

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

#big problems #care #criticize #few #folks

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

#better #better place #beyond #day #every

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm. ↗

— Edgard Varese

#dream #exigencies #i #i dream #inner

My father, if anything, first and last, was a man of words. He loved stories; he didn't live for stories, exactly, but I think he lived through stories. I think, like many writers, he loved stories about things he had experienced as much as, if not more than, he loved the experiences themselves. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#anything #exactly #experienced #experiences #father

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#emergencies #equip #expense #joy #life

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#flow #greatest #our #ourselves

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#curl #democrats #europeans #hate #indiana

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#asked #british #british government #chaos #confusion

It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves. ↗

— Stafford Cripps

#british #british people #decide #determined #i