Themselves - Quotes
There is no evidence to suggest that God helps people. There is, however, ample evidence that people can help themselves and each other.
It`s the actors who are prepared to make fools of themselves who are usually the ones who come to mean something to the audience.
There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The difference between successful people and others is how long they spend time feeling sorry for themselves.
Our darkest motives will conceal themselves from us, cloak themselves in whatever they must in order to move us to action.
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves.
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
A lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people - "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" - they're saying a lot more about themselves than they are the target of their accusations, because those people, the ones who make that accusation, they themselves never act for any reason other than corrupt reasons, so they assume that everybody else is plagued by the same disease of soullessness as they are, and so that's the assumption.
Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!
People who eavesdrop seldom hear good about themselves, right? An old adage, and a true one.
People talk about books that write themselves, and it`s a lie. Books don`t write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you`d believe.