We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's also a velvet rope we have inside of us, keeping others from knowing our feelings.
Nine-tenths of our suffering is caused by others not thinking so much of us as we think they ought.
Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.
To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
Libertarians typically argue that particular obligations, at least under normal circumstances, must be created by consent; they cannot be unilaterally imposed by others.
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.
What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.
You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed 'errors' in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy.
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
I feel strongly that having a disability in one area makes you explore others instead.
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
