Himself Quotes

I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was God Himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory. It was us.

Just the actual physical ability to hold four instruments simultaneously and do some of the things that Vivien was able to do is mind blowing to any surgeon. He never went to medical school and he became one of the great teachers of medicine himself, people are just amazed.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

John Cena’s work ethic is beyond reproach. It’s been phenomenal to see what he does and he’s made himself a brand.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

May our former president, who brought peace to millions, find it for himself.

There is no reason why an American scholar cannot by himself or herself develop an adequate understanding of another culture. And I don’t find any reason to suppose that the birth within a culture automatically confers understanding.

The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father’s law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

I think he’s informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven‘t the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

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.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

My father suffered much and toiled painfully all his life, for he had no resources other than the proceeds of his trade from which to support himself and his wife and family.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.

The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

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.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

Don’t feel embarrassed if you’ve never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.

When a lion doesn’t get its prey, it remains hungry. When the prey saves himself, he has not won, but has saved his life.

The reason there is no noblesse oblige about Dubya is because he doesn’t admit to himself or anyone else that he owes his entire life to being named George W. Bush. He didn’t just get a head start by being his father’s son – it remained the single most salient fact about him for most of his life.

A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government.

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

What I love about ‘Big Hero 6’, with Baymax himself – this sentient creature who’s actually a learning robot – with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’

President Obama has proven himself to be a terrible negotiator. I don’t support any trade deal negotiated by his administration.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature… In this scenario, Man comes on as a stupendous lethal force, and the Earth is pictured as something delicate, like rising bubbles at the surface of a country pond, or flights of fragile birds.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.