#themselves

Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#little #maintain #only #powerful #states

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

#dreams #life #life is a #only #themselves

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#care #down #i #implying #knocking

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#ahead #blockhead #great #great person #make

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#answers #before #being #make #man

Writers let themselves be enticed by the language. ↗

— Peter Bichsel

#themselves #writers

The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#greatest #human #human souls #look #makes

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence. ↗

— Pam Brown

#beautiful #capability #dreams #escape #existence

It is unacceptable that someone can work full time - and work hard - and not be able to lift themselves out of poverty. ↗

— Sherrod Brown

#full #hard #lift #out #poverty

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape. ↗

— Henry Morton Stanley

#anticipated #attractions #based #began #book