Quotes of: Themselves Keyword

People are not always very tolerant of the tears which they themselves have provoked.

The Captive & The Fugitive

Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.

Changes

Cats are solitary hunters with only the vaguest concept of hierarchy and little desire to “please” anyone but themselves

The Cat Owner's Manual

Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.

Compulsion

He said if you do what you have to do today, all the tomorrows have a way of working things out by themselves.

Crash Into Me

In their faces--plenty of them were handsome, but ruined--I've seen the remnants of who they almost succeeded in being but failed to be, before becoming themselves.

Canada

And they would go not with an eye to gaining converts but with an eye to meeting need. The conversions would take care of themselves.

The Cross and the Switchblade

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Cold Skin

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Degrees: Thought Capsules

If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.

Doctor No

....it struck her that that perhaps everyone had the ability to see themselves in others. Even in the rocks. Even in the roses.

DAMASCENA - The Tale of Roses and Rumi

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

Every Man Dies Alone

a real partnership in which all parties help all others to be more fully themselves

Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.

The Ellison Effect

I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.

Ender's Game

...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

The Elfish Gene: Dungeons, Dragons And Growing Up Strange

Nothing's really changed since then, except that now any children we have might be wizards themselves, and I'll be hopelessly outnumbered.

The False Princess

They themselves do not see the world of light as we do, but our shapes cast shadows in their minds, which only the noon sun destroys.

The Fellowship of the Ring

Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.

The God Delusion

Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.

The Go-Go Girl

What I didn't know then was that you can't make people different, whatever you do. They have to do it themselves.

Goodbye Johnny Thunders