Oneself Quotes

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille

God, Place, Means

Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
Morarji Desai

Life, Time, Become

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.
George P. Baker

Best, Read, Drama

Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.
Kurt Sutter

Time, Long, Game

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
Billy Gibbons

Matter, Film, Mirror

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.
Greil Marcus

Struggle, May, Free

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord

Nothing, Everything, Hear

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Gerald Brenan

Someone, Everyone, Avoid

If one is reported as having set up camp overseas, it's as if one has made oneself unavailable.
Julian Sands

Made, Camp, Overseas

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.
Bridget Riley

Work, Today, May

I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.
Malcolm McDowell

Love, Everything, Open

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
Laura Riding

Bad, Possible, Act

I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
Isaac Rosenberg

Important, Real, Situation

It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Robert Frank

Reaction, Photograph, Produces

And there isn't any way that one can get rid of the guilt of having a nice body by saying that one can serve society with it, because that would end up with oneself as what? There simply doesn't seem to be any moral place for flesh.
Margaret Drabble

Society, Nice, End

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
Kitty O'Neill Collins

Someone, Everyone, Avoid

What comes from oneself, is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.
Eduardo Chillida

Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida

Person, Found, Nobody

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian

Point, Literature, Starting

But what is the greatest evil? If you are going to epitomize evil, what is it? Is it the bomb? The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worse part of oneself.
Patrick McGoohan

Greatest, Fight, Evil

One has the responsibility to oneself, to the writer, director and the people who put up the money, to put out the best of what one has experienced and understood about the human condition as it relates to the role one has been hired to portray.
Tom Skerritt

Money, Best, Human

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.
Michael Tolkin

Impossible, Culture, Taken

It's a matter of pride to me to get the film done fast, to get it done well. I understand the need for compromise. There is no such thing as a perfect shot, a perfect film. The purpose of film is not to make a monument to oneself.
Irvin Kershner

Done, Understand, Perfect

It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
Cornelia Otis Skinner

True, Spring, Far

Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.
James Wyatt

Others, Matters, Trifling

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.
Berthe Morisot

Experience, Important, Real

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
Alfred Kazin

Time, Home, Others

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault.
Robert Conquest

Peace, Moral, Commitment

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.
Georges Courteline

Life, Everything, Necessary

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.
Jane Welsh Carlyle

Time, Great, Mother

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