#selves

So few people are truly themselves when they're in the spotlight. ↗

— Lucinda Williams

#few people #people #spotlight #themselves #truly

There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#felt #hasn #many #selves #separate

Most of us don't live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented. ↗

— Tobias Wolff

#expression #fragmented #lend #live #lives

Support for peaceful reform by the people themselves is the right way to promote democracy, not the use of force. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#democracy #force #peaceful #people #promote

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated. ↗

— Penelope Wilton

#i #people #put #readily #themselves

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#find #form #government #had #i

We need to police ourselves in the media. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#need #ourselves #police

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#consciences #contrary #existed #external #intolerable

Only one of us would usually sing lead. Which most of the time was, Mickey or Dave. They thought it was perfectly a natural routine, because Mickey and Dave saw themselves as TV actors. ↗

— Peter Tork

#dave #lead #mickey #most #natural

Rural Americans want leaders who help middle-class communities to plan and prosper over the long-term - not opportunists who reap the rewards for themselves, leaving nothing for the people who do the sowing. ↗

— Tom Vilsack

#for the people #help #leaders #leaving #long-term