#yours

The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be. ↗

— John Ashbery

#cannot #poem #sad #wants #yours

When you talk to yourself, at least you know that someone is listening. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#least #listening #someone #talk #you

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. ↗

— Buddha

#battles #better #cannot #conquer #demons

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#grace #politics #putting #state #yourself

I look at myself objectively and in a way I see myself as a commodity. Your name becomes somehow outside yourself. Now, when I'm at home being Mrs. Scarfe, that's when I'm most myself. ↗

— Jane Asher

#being #commodity #home #i #i see

It's like taking over This Is Your Life from Eamonn Andrews - you just open your mouth and hope you sound like yourself. That's all you can possibly do. ↗

— Michael Aspel

#hope #just #life #like #mouth

People have criticised me because my security detail is larger than the president's. But you must ask yourself: are there more people who want to kill me than who want to kill the president? I can assure you there are. ↗

— Marion Berry

#assure #because #criticised #detail #i

This is my truth, tell me yours. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#my truth #tell #truth #yours

The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#cannot #much #problem #prove #someone

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#thing #want #well #you #yourself