You can't supervise your own history.
It simply cannot be that the president can name his own temporary attorney general to supervise an investigation in which he and his family have a direct, concrete interest.
Ukraine must be permitted to bring their own relief supplies safely to areas in the east of the country that are controlled by the separatists.
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.
For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
In my own private-sector work, I have become intrigued with RIWI, a Canadian based company that surveys random respondents on the Web to measure attitudes in otherwise hard-to-reach places.
A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
I really have had to swallow my own prejudice at times.
There are a few elements - especially platinum and palladium - that have the amazing ability to absorb up to 900 times their own volume in hydrogen gas. To get a sense of the scale there, that's roughly equivalent to a 250-pound man swallowing something the size of a dozen African bull elephants and not gaining an inch on his waistline.
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
I used to print out lyrics from Nas songs and write my own lyrics in the same syllable count but with different words and different rhymes.
The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.
I love Shillington not as one loves Capri or New York, because they are special, but as one loves one's own body and consciousness, because they are synonymous with being.
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
There's a beautiful, kind of seductive trap in being autobiographical in our writing of songs: We just get stuck in our own syrup, and it's so personal that it almost can be embarrassing to the listener.
Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
Live Twitter can be built right into the main Twitter app, but it should certainly have its own tab so we can concentrate on the live experience free of distraction.
Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
