#selves

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

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families

Nintendo's philosophy is never to go the easy path; it's always to challenge ourselves and try to do something new. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#challenge #easy #go #never #new

If governments let themselves be fully bound by the decisions of their parliaments without protecting their own freedom to act, a breakup of Europe would be a more probable outcome than deeper integration. ↗

— Mario Monti

#bound #breakup #decisions #deeper #europe

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #before #chance #crap #funny

Little girls are taught to be dependent, incapable of valuing themselves in many aspects of their daily lives. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#daily #daily lives #dependent #incapable #little

Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#complain #fact #find #governors #greatly

Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#crucial #experience #giving #giving up #known

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#backwards #course #evolutionary #existence #go

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are. ↗

— Mitch McConnell

#american #back #back up #else #fail