#selves

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius. ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#difficult #dilemmas #extricate #genius #liars

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. ↗

— Chief Seattle

#bound #connect #humankind #life #ourselves

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#doing good #good #gratification #makes #ourselves

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves. ↗

— Julianne Moore

#come #i #looking #see #themselves

Actors talking about themselves. Nothing better! ↗

— Megan Mullally

#better #nothing #talking #themselves

I've zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#anything #art #best #call #does

People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well. ↗

— Bebe Neuwirth

#chosen #everything #friends #goes #happiest

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#body #claim #decline #followers #nation

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures. ↗

— Francis Parkman

#back #brought #conventionality #elements #fabric