Quotes of: Themselves Keyword

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

Hidden Agendas

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!

Beautiful Disaster

The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.

The Book of Immortality: The Science, Belief, and Magic Behind Living Forever

Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

Brother Odd

Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

Bouvard and Pecuchet

Blankets could be used to stop exponential population growth. If we kept the people warm, maybe they wouldn’t try to heat themselves up through continual fornication.  

Brick

in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to explain what you mean. Everything else is misunderstanding.

Buitenstaanders

Most humans turn away from God simply for the privilege of deluding themselves into thinking they are the masters of their own destiny.

Case Files of an Angel

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

The Campaigns of Alexander

If birds can fend for themselves, it means theirs hope for our tomorrow.

Cybersex: A Nightmare of the 21st Century: The Rebirth of Armageddon

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

Joan Collins

I don't think it should be allowed for people to start working at a young age and not take the time to just be living as themselves in the real world, especially now in this new age of new media and the obsession with celebrity. I think it's a real c...

Gaby Hoffmann

Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

Judy Biggert

A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.

Kirsten Dunst

I think that distributors and marketing companies realise that there are a huge number of women over 40 who want to go the cinema and see films about themselves. Women of my age don't want to be force-fed with stuff about 25-year-olds.

Lesley Manville

The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energetic as they free themselves from situations that are toxic to their essential selves.

Martha Beck

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

Richard Branson