#ourselves

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves. ↗

— Albert Camus

#know #lived #lives #made #now

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. ↗

— Albert Camus

#advantage #always #deceive #disadvantage #first

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#contemplation #less #life #live #makes

There's every reason to believe there will be further attacks attempted against the United States. For us to spend so much time patting ourselves on the back because we got bin Laden that we miss the next attack would be a terrible tragedy. ↗

— Dick Cheney

#attack #attacks #attempted #back #because

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#approve #condemn #conduct #conscience #judgment

We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#end #faithful #generations #glorious #heritage

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose. ↗

— Mark Cuban

#business #capital #growing #lost #market

Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#inflict #mental #never #nightmare #ourselves

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#coming #count #day #decades #die