Selma James
Related We're not words, Henry, we're people.SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I don't think we define our lives by our illness. We define ourselves by how we live. LARRY GOLDSTEIN We don’t have to allow ourselves to be defined by the labels imposed on us. We get to define ourse... LIZZIE VELáSQUEZ DEYTH BANGER In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN RUDYARD KIPLING SUNDAY ADELAJA SHERRILYN KENYON C. JOYBELL C. SLAVOJ ŽIžEK DREW GILPIN FAUST JAMIE FORD It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may. We are never able to know ourselves ful... MOHANDAS GANDHI MELINA MARCHETTA We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched ... DAVID ANSEN MARGHERITA MISSONI ELIZABETH GILBERT BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES It's going to give us an idea of where we're at and what we need to improve on. It will by no means ... DAVE ESQUER PICO IYER RALPH WALDO EMERSON We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO ABHISHEK KUMAR ANDREW KENDALL ELLEN DEGENERES LORETTA LYNCH HENRY WARD BEECHER Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK ERICH FROMM NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON We have to lie to ourselves as decathletes and say that we like all ten events. BRYAN CLAY HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER SHERYL SANDBERG JANE AUSTEN The opinions of others do not define who we are. Remember that how we see ourselves, is the most cri... SHELLY KAY WALDE BURT RUTAN If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instanc... ALEXEI SAYLE M. RUSSELL BALLARD NOEL COWARD CRAIG GROESCHEL Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD ERIC HOFFER We just want to have a say over our own water and manage it ourselves, like we always have. DELFINO GARCIA VELAZQUEZ DOUGLAS COUPLAND We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO In this universe, and this existence, where we live with this duality of whether we exist or not and... SHEKHAR KAPUR SHERRILYN KENYON We had great fans, but they were hard fans. They used to cheer when I got hurt. We did have to prove... BABE PARILLI When our interests matched, the Americans have been good to us, and when the interests differed, the... BASHAR AL-ASSAD ERIC HOFFER RICHARD POWERS WILLIAM BARRETT I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourse... JENNIFER LOUDEN Our older stuff was pretty much the demos that we did on our own. We produced, recorded and mixed th... BRETT SCALLIONS Those of us who preach the Scriptures, along with being nourished by it ourselves, have to figure ou... JOHN ORTBERG KAMAND KOJOURI JAY GRIFFITHS It's like having several Super Bowls without having to bid on them. It helps to define who we are. W... ARTHUR HARDY FEDERICO FELLINI If you're going to say don't park in the yard, we have to define what a driveway is. CHAD WAMPLER They pressed us t he whole game and we knew what we needed to do against it; we just didn't do it. T... CHAD ALLAN SWAMI VIVEKANANDA RALPH BAKSHI WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE One of the professors here used to say to us, 'Dr. King's birthday as we celebrate it is not a day o... ANNA BROWN It's very insidious. They say they are studying filing sedition charges. They say they have lists, b... SHEILA CORONEL SARAH DESSEN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS PASCAL MERCIER We cannot change trying to be better, it is our nature, but we can change what is important to us an... JIM GENOVESE ALAIN DE BOTTON When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the ... ROBERT CRUMB DAVID SUZUKI M SCOTT PECK M. SCOTT PECK Barriers not only define our self imposed limitations, they also define our self worth and the value... PHILLIP HAWKINS ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY They say stats are for losers and I guess that's what it was. Because we were concerned about where ... EUGENE ROBINSON PIET MONDRIAN They know what's at stake. They know what we're all about, so we never have to talk about the winnin... ALLEN ROSSI CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH People try to say it can be a bad influence, like they try to say with video games and movies. Howev... RON JEREMY JULIA CAMERON DONALD MILLER MAYA ANGELOU FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER SHARON SALZBERG JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE MARY E. DEMUTH When you are in a growth company, you have to really open people's eyes to the bigger possibilit... DAN ROSENSWEIG ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I'm a Vermonter. I live in Vermont. We have to take care of our own people. We have to figure out ho... DAN BRUSH SIR THOMAS BROWNE We held the storm several times. It's a great rivalry between us and Center Grove. I have to say tha... DAVE CLARK We are not prepared to say, to assert, that they are or are not. We are looking at what they are say... LAURA MURPHY If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS...
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Reasons... questions... what they have in common?
Now they have a riddle.
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
All good people agree,
It is so important that we as spiritual people should not define ourselves only by our profession 
Mistakes don't have to define us. They're how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don't ... 
Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting our... 
Words are never 'only words'; they matter because they define the contours of what we can do. 
As we have sought through the centuries to define ourselves as human beings and as nations through t... 
Henry, this isn't about us. I mean it is, but they don't define you by the button you wear. They def... 
Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words? 
I think that clothes and accessories define and describe who we are. I can't see many difference... 
The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We crea... 
Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to oursel... 
When we are kids, we imagine that to define ourselves or to find ourselves means charting your own i... 
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... 
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! 
What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, w... 
If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck wi... 
Others will always seek to define you based on what they think you represent or who they think you a... 
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distres... 
Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not underst... 
We define ourselves as intelligent. That's odd, because we're doing the definition - We'... 
Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of... 
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where exp... 
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously.... Pride relate... 
Breakthroughs are what define our species. They come about because we are threatened. 
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whet... 
People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is wh... 
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... 
We never say so much as when we do not quite know what we want to say. We need few words when we hav... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
It is thus with most of us; we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hears... 
We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passion... 
We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become. 
We dance to seduce ourselves. To fall in love with ourselves. When we dance with another, we manifes... 
Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it i... 
I discovered that what's really important for a creator isn't what we vaguely define as inspiration ... 
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ... 
They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong. 
They say miracles are past. 
That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we... 
For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far... 
When we talk about ourselves, about others, or simply about things, we want- it could be said – to... 
We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and... 
You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, ... 
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... 
When we teach ourselves and our children discipline, we are teaching them and ourselves how to suffe... 
We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential a... 
We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express... 
To judge someone is to say that I have the right to define who they are, verses understanding that G... 
Basic Principles:
...the words alone, lonely, and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English langu... 
We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, ac... 
Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner... 
When we see the relatedness of ourselves to the universe, that we do not live as isolated entities, ... 
For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we b... 
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves. 
Leaders don't define wealth by material things they see. They define wealth by the visions they imag... 
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are
spoken under the rose.
- Sir Th... 
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It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, ... 
National honor is the national property of the highest value. 
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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m... 
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My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.' 
Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then. 
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It's pretty scary to know how quickly time flies. 
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Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves. 
'Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it. 
More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution. 
When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling... 
A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on. 
I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance. 
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My expectations of other people, I double them on myself. 
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The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world,... 
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that. 
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, ... 
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID t... 
It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that t... 
In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, c... 
An actor should be judged by his performance only. 
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the ki... 
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to ... 
The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why... 
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew th... 
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce... 
No one forgets their first love. You're experiencing all those endorphins and all that dopamine ... 
I loved all the princess films, and I grew up with them, and I think it's really cool how they&#... 
You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-a... 
A man is literally what he thinks. 
There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... 
I'm confident with my ability. 
Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... 
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The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes... 
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Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... 
'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the ... 
I think I feel most like a princess when I'm sort of bursting with happiness and love, so whethe... 
Markets work best when there's lots of information available and a historical track record to go... 
I want to be like Matt Damon and do a hugely successful thinking-man's action franchise like ... 
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination. 
There are reasons people seek escape in books, and one of those reasons is that the boundary of what... 
When Americans think of college these days, the first word that often comes to mind is 'debt.... 
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that, whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opi... 
Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty & love of country. 
And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State cedin... 
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person. 
Buy a book in brown paper 
I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singula... 
Your parents are the parents you know best. Your brother and sister, if you have them, are the broth... 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home. 
Undisclosed and illegal payments, kickbacks, and bribes became a way of doing business at FIFA. 
But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, ... 
All are equal