1327 Himself Quotes for You to Enjoy

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. Italo Calvino

Knowledge World Better He Attracted Attraction Concern Forced Him Himself Gaining Repulsion Satirist

Schools that are freely accessible allow the organization of certain specific learning tasks which a person might propose to himself. Schools, when they are compulsory - as we see at this moment in the United States - create a dazed population, a 'learned' population, a mentally pretentious population, such as we have never seen before. Ivan Illich

Learning Organization Pretentious Seen Before States See Mentally Compulsory Propose Allow Never Freely Dazed Schools Himself Learned Accessible Person Tasks Which Might Create Certain Moment Population United Specific United States

The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit. J. August Richards

Me Met Bit Hook Him Himself Off Michael Person Just Just A Little Bit Want Interesting Little Little Bit Interesting Thing Thing

Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day. J. D. Hayworth

Day Character Fool Every Day People World Black Made Giving Every Eye Entire Entire World Chavez Put Unstable Himself Real Losers Up Front While Who Compete

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility. J. F. Powers

Precipice He Himself Suddenly Utility Found

I always felt something different when I saw Gary Oldman on screen. It just felt like he knew how to reach a deeper level of himself, which is something I keep striving to reach. J. R. Ramirez

This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened. Jack Kevorkian

Crime Society Could Never Himself Any Which Enlightened

It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself. Jack Straw

Day Mother Father Extraordinary Teeth Out Unpleasant See Rather Uncles Attempt He Put Knock House Half-Hearted Himself Because Making Been His Up Wall Children Happened Upstairs Against Grandmother Next Found Gas Two

To describe the world Michael Jackson has created around himself as a childhood fantasy isn't quite accurate. Thanks to wealth and celebrity, he has been able to live as a superannuated child. With the help of plastic surgery and dramatic affectation, he has made himself look and sound pre-pubescent. Jacob Weisberg

World Wealth Made Thanks Live Dramatic Has-Been Able He Look Himself Around Sound Surgery Affectation Been Michael Michael Jackson Celebrity Child Accurate Jackson Quite Childhood Fantasy Created Help Plastic Describe Plastic Surgery

The Rock was one of my favourite comedy characters growing up, and I still think he is. Mainly because he took himself so seriously by being ridiculous and a buffoon all the time but always took the high status. James Acaster

I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society. James Bobin

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. James Hogg

Sun Charge Entirely Rising Could Had Propriety Until Him Himself Greater Shepherds Been Effected Left Forest Midnight Assisted

The Court made an exception, however, in the case of candidates contributing to their own campaigns because of the rather reasonable presumption that a candidate is incapable of corrupting himself. James L. Buckley

Made Own Presumption Case Rather Exception Himself Because Court However Campaigns Contributing Candidate Candidates Incapable Reasonable

Modern man is in crisis. He has degenerated from the redoubtable pillar he became through centuries of refinement and slipped resignedly into the popular depiction of himself as a witless under-achiever, incapable of looking after himself or those around him. James May

Man Looking Those Crisis Through He Him Himself Became Around Pillar Refinement Modern Modern Man Depiction After Centuries Incapable Popular

'The Paris Review' was always the pinnacle: it was the place to be published. You were thrilled if you were published in 'The Paris Review,' and George Plimpton himself was practically mythical. He was a legendary figure. James Salter

You Thrilled Paris Mythical He Himself Practically Always George Were Review Pinnacle Legendary Place Figure Published

Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again. James Stephens

Nature Wise Man Wise Man Fool Natural Will Healthy Every Unnecessary Him Himself Knows Reduce Quickly Labour Any Again Wash

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep. James Thurber

Time Half Lasts Months Out About He Himself Calls His End Begins Banquet Average Sanity Speaker Two Sleep

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