#themselves

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#become #choose #construction #flatterers #guides

People stopped hanging out with me at the point when I stopped doing drugs. All of a sudden they didn't wanna hang out with me anymore. And I would have hung out with them. I mean they were killing themselves, but I still would have hung out with them. ↗

— John Wozniak

#doing #hang #hanging #hung #i

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

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#asking #brave #done #enough #ever

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things. ↗

— Richard Cecil

#acquiesced #all things #bible #characters #god

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. ↗

— Michel De Certeau

#become #believing #churches #once #organizations

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#hours #i #minutes #recommend #take

The often cruel behavior of Christians toward unbelievers and even toward dissenters among themselves is shocking evidence of the function of that image in relation to values and behavior. ↗

— Carol P. Christ

#behavior #christians #cruel #dissenters #even

Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#achieving #most #notice #reassure #something

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