Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language.
The '80s was an interesting, confining time for songwriters, so we were just sort of riffing in our own language, off to the side.
Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.
It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that we're actually right about that. In most of the West, we simply haven't been tested in the same way. And when we are tested, we often fail.
Just two weeks ago, millions of Iraqis defied the threats of terrorists and went to the polls to determine their own future. I congratulate the Iraqi people for the courage they've shown in making these elections so successful.
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.
Connery made Bond real through his physicality. He did most of his own stunts and fights, and the audience knew it was him.
Picasso said once when being interviewed that one should not be one's own connoisseur.
You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
Remember that our Spanish conquerors, for their own benefit, deliberately created an oppressed underclass whose collective psyche became rooted in passivity and underachievement.
I think everything has its own pros and cons.
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for?
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
