The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.
The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself.
When people say, you know, ‘Good teacher,’ ‘Prophet,’ ‘Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
The thing a player has to ask himself: ‘Do you want to choose winning over standing out?’ Dwyane Wade made that choice, and I don’t think he gets enough credit.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.
The Senate are a branch of the treaty-making power, and by consulting them in advance of his own action upon important measures of foreign policy which may ultimately come before them for their consideration, the President secures harmony of action between that body and himself.
I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain – at least in a poor country like Russia – and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.
Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.
When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
You have a billion people who know ‘Tribbles’ and only half a million who know my novel ‘The Man Who Folded Himself,’ which is one of my better-known books.
Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
The real ‘action’ in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.
If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
The good thing about Curtis is he’s very confident and secure in himself, so he doesn’t waste his energy on any negative comments.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don’t support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
If God gave the soul his whole creation she would not be filled thereby but only with himself.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
No, when the fight begins within himself, A man’s worth something.
Like any parents, mine wanted me to have a secure job with a regular wage and career prospects. And the one job my father knew of, that he’d had experience of himself, was the army, so he could help me in that direction.
When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on.
For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.
Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn’t supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
I’m somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don’t, you fade. You become stagnant.
All leaders in the Lord’s Church are called by proper authority. No prophet or any other leader in this Church, for that matter, has ever called himself or herself. No prophet has ever been elected.
Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.
The manager is by himself. He can’t mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’
I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners – that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.
Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.
Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Obama offers himself as a catalyst by which disenchanted Americans can overcome two decades of vicious partisanship, energize our democracy, and restore faith in government.
The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.
My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I’m like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I’m like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I’m like that.
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.
For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.
