#themselves

The divine law indeed has excluded women from this ministry, but they endeavour to thrust themselves into it; and since they can effect nothing of themselves, they do all through the agency of others. ↗

— John Chrysostom

#divine #effect #endeavour #excluded #indeed

There are actors who are really fantastically talented at being natural on screen and appearing to be themselves, but I like the challenge of becoming somebody else. ↗

— Toni Collette

#becoming #being #challenge #else #fantastically

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#cannot #into #keep #lives #others

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

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #beautiful #because #else #i

It's not easy to act, but to direct to act. It goes form one place to the next. It's not heading for the punchline, and also it's not about scoring goals. It's about passing the ball, and the goals will come by themselves. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#act #also #ball #come #direct

I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ↗

— Ruth Bernhard

#i #make #me #never #photographs

The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates. ↗

— Ian Botham

#bad day #day #field #had #people

People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#last #long #main #much #people

Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#god #judge #looks #men #our