1910 Ourselves Quotes for You to Enjoy

Writers like to feel sorry for themselves, which is easy to do in private, but when called on to feel sorry for ourselves in social situations, we will often do so by sharing terrible book tour stories. Jonathan Dee

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Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves. Jonathan Haidt

Nature Other Our Ourselves Out Like Most Mostly Social

I think that's the great thing about zombies, is, you know, going back to even 'Night of the Living Dead,' they've always been a tool for kind of holding up a mirror to us and showing us something about ourselves that we might not otherwise know. Jonathan Levine

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Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies. Jonathan Mayhew

None of us, in our culture of comfort, know how to prepare ourselves for dying, but that's what we should do every day. Every single day, we die a thousand deaths. Joni Eareckson Tada

We need to ask ourselves what are we here for and what have we worked so hard to be here for. Jonny Wilkinson

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We will not send troops. Germany is not committed to Iraq - we will not commit ourselves with troops. Joschka Fischer

Will Ourselves Troops Iraq Germany Send Commit Committed

The voice is like a man, like ourselves: we all feel melancholic about what we have lost, the things we could do when we were young. But having the possibility to still perform is wonderful. The voice loses elasticity as you age, but on the other hand, maybe you are more mature as an interpreter, maybe your approach to singing deepens. Jose Carreras

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On the whole, books are indeed less finite than ourselves. Even the worst among them outlast their authors - mainly because they occupy a smaller amount of physical space than those who penned them. Often they sit on the shelves absorbing dust long after the writer himself has turned into a handful of dust. Joseph Brodsky

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Of course there is no denying the possible pleasure of holing up with a fat, slow-moving, mediocre novel; still, we all know that we can indulge ourselves in that fashion only so much. In the end, we read not for reading's sake, but to learn. Joseph Brodsky

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. Joseph Conrad

You Too Much Complexion Too Earth Slightly Those Ourselves Pretty Taking Look Mostly Than Different Noses Which Flatter Much Means Who Away Conquest Thing

Our Holy Father says every one of us is in need of conversion, beginning with ourselves. We are all in need of the grace of Jesus Christ to receive the Gospel. Joseph Edward Kurtz

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Worse there cannot be; a better, I believe, there may be, by giving energy to the capital and skill of the country to produce exports, by increasing which, alone, can we flatter ourselves with the prospect of finding employment for that part of our population now unemployed. Joseph Hume

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No one can disgrace us but ourselves. Josh Billings

Ourselves No-One Disgrace Us

We're always trying to outdo ourselves, trying to do better, trying to write better songs. I think we want to inspire other people as well, so that's what we'll try to do through future songs. Josh Dun

Future People Better Inspire Try Think Other Ourselves Outdo Through Write Songs Well Always Trying Want

It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans. Josh Dun

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All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human. Joshua Cohen

Technology Sense Back Ourselves Give Does Us

How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply? Joshua Foer

When Zionism becomes co-extensive with Jewishness, Jewishness is pitted against the diversity that defines democracy, and if I may say so, betrays one of the most important ethical dimensions of the diasporic Jewish tradition: namely, the obligation of co-habitation with those different from ourselves. Judith Butler

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life. Judith Wright

Life Experience Difficult Hungry Ourselves More Pursue Make Create Less

As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe. Judith Wright

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When clients are involved in a crisis, we often start at the end. When this is over, where do you want to end up? What's your endgame? We try to start from that and work ourselves back. Judy Smith

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