#themselves

These thieves defend themselves by saying, 'I was there all the time, and the officials missed me.' Favorite excuses for missing surveillance checkpoints: jacket covered the number took off the shirt with the number hidden in a crowd. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#crowd #defend #excuses #favorite #hidden

At a magazine, everything you do is edited by a bunch of people, by committee, and a lot of them are, were, or think of themselves as writers. Part of that is because magazines worry about their voice. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#because #bunch #committee #edited #everything

The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#deliberate #own #people #reverse #safely

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice. ↗

— Dan Lipinski

#american soldiers #character #continue #courage #defend

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#another #color #exist #generation #history

Lots of people say we should fly less, heat less, and put on a sweater. But it's not going to happen. People are happy to say that for other people, but not themselves. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#going #happen #happy #heat #less

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#believed #daughter #encouragement #forming #helpful

The mind and the voice by themselves are not sufficient. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#sufficient #themselves #voice

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#degenerates #every #government #only #people

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#fear #govern #i #master #may