#selves

If we were left to ourselves, unfettered by legislative enactments, we should gradually withdraw our capital from the cultivation of such lands, and import the produce which is at present raised upon them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#cultivation #gradually #import #lands #left

I think they saw me as something like a deliverer, a way out. My means of expression, my music, was a way in which a lot of people wished they could express themselves and couldn't. ↗

— Little Richard

#express #expression #i #i think #like

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#religious #themselves #think #too #who

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#bored #get #god #i #knows

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#determines #lives #others #our #our lives

He knows much of what men paint themselves would blister in the light of what they are. ↗

— Edwin A. Robinson

#knows #light #men #much #paint

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#always #another #call #candidates #careful

We're very physical creatures, and we worry about how we look sometimes more than our spiritual selves. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#creatures #how #look #more #our

We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#conscious #earth #given #highly #make

So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way. ↗

— Will Rogers

#day #different #different way #doing #every