Top 100 Myself If Quotes
#1. I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'
Arianna Huffington
#2. You see, I'm fond of teasing, it's
a second nature with me - and I'm used to teasing myself. Plaguing myself, if you prefer; I don't tease nicely.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#3. I go by intuition. Work-wise, that means asking myself if a role will push me outside my comfort zone, challenge me to learn something new.
Isabel Lucas
#5. At my age, I know myself. If I make a project, it's a way to help me. I don't do it for therapeutic reasons, but I know that the therapy can be a side profit.
Sophie Calle
#6. I'll gladly identify myself if you'll first simply explain what it is I'm identifying myself as. This is my position. You're requiring me to attest to facts I do not possess. The term for this is "duress."
David Foster Wallace
#7. I tell myself, 'If I can wake up each day and be excited about what I'm doing, then I must be happy.' But then again, maybe I'm in denial.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#8. I make up my opinions from facts and reasoning, and not to suit any body but myself. If people don't like my opinions, it makes little difference as I don't solicit their opinions or votes.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#9. Won't be able to live with myself if I don't at least try to convince you of my feelings. Not after that kiss. Not after how it's rearranged my whole heart.
Anne Eliot
#10. It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#11. I'll keep my lips to myself, if that's what you want.
Cassie Mae
#12. I thought to myself: if it's true that every person has a star in the sky, mine must be distant, dim, and absurd. Perhaps I never had a star.
Sadegh Hedayat
#13. Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.
Emil Cioran
#14. Obviously I'm not a violent person; I don't like violence, but I would definitely go into defending myself if the situation arose.
Michelle Ryan
#15. When they [people with insomnia] start worrying about not sleeping, I'll say, "Say the mantra to myself; if I don't sleep tonight, I'll likely sleep tomorrow, and if not tomorrow then definitely the third" because our body has a way of naturally catching up.
Shelby Harris
#16. I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
I.M. Pei
#17. I just reached the point where I realised, I need to stop repeating myself if I'm ever actually going to enjoy the music I'm creating.
Zach Condon
#18. There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me.
Charles Taylor
#19. Whenever I have to think to understand what the code is doing, I ask myself if I can refactor the code to make that understanding more immediately apparent.
Martin Fowler
#20. I shun authors, and would never have been one myself, if it obliged me to keep such bad company.
Horace Walpole
#21. Whatever the item is that I have chosen to give you, it is nothing more than the receptacle within which I have placed the whole of myself. If it is empty, it is not a gift.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#22. I am a rebel by birth ... I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity . My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest .
Yip Harburg
#23. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone love me?
John Green
#24. You kind of create your own moral universe. It's like, well, I like myself. If other people don't like me, then whatever. I'm out of here.
Jessica Cutler
#25. I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.
Kate McKinnon
#26. If I don't take care of myself, if I don't feel good about myself, how can I help others?
Richard Simmons
#27. For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.
Henry Norris Russell
#29. I never deprive myself. If I'm craving something once a week, then Ill go have it Ice cream or whatever, I just eat the foods I like.
Kate Upton
#30. The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus.
Frank Zappa
#31. I'm obsessed with the human psyche. I want to understand. I want to ask myself if I have it inside me.
Noomi Rapace
#32. I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.
Kerry Wood
#33. Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
Lorrie Moore
#34. One-hundred percent, even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it myself, if you know what I mean.
Sam Smith
#35. In a sense, when we started Virgin Atlantic, I was trying to create an airline for myself. If you try to build the perfect airline for yourself, it will be appreciated by others.
Richard Branson
#36. If I am spared," he always said to Constance, "I will write the book myself. If not, see that my notes are entrusted to some worthy cynic who will not be too concerned with the truth.
Shirley Jackson
#37. I had developed a survival skill of using my wit to score for myself. If a scene was dying, I'd lob in these little bombshell lines that would get me some attention and a laugh without really helping the scene.
Harold Ramis
#38. I said to myself, if I was in the race, I know I would have won.
Asafa Powell
#39. I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
Henry James
#41. I say to myself if you believe deeply in your heart you must defy, and if you are willing to pay for your defiance, you must always do it, even though the pain may be much. Too many times in our lives we do not do it, and we pay even more ...
James Frey
#42. Because in most cases, I believe that people deserve a second chance. And because I couldn't have lived with myself if I'd stood by and let them both die souless, when I could have helped.
Rachel Vincent
#43. Their poses are all different but the face is the same. Painted from memory in scene after scene is the fresh-faced beauty. Kate.
It's the bargain I've made with myself. If I can't caress her body with my hands, I paint it with my brushes. Use my fingers to trace her lines.
Amy Plum
#44. I used to edit myself. If something seemed super-simple I had to make it more complicated. Now I'm trying to let what's in there come out and acknowledge where I come from. I'm trying to make it more..true.
Bill Frisell
#45. I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli
#46. My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.
Yoko Ono
#47. At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.
Meredith Ostrom
#48. Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
Malcolm Wilson
#49. I'm a grown woman and can take care of myself. If someone has a problem with my feelings for Bastien and thinks I shouldn't get involved with him because they don't like him, they can kiss my merry mortal ass.
Dianne Duvall
#50. Mae West, a famous vaudeville actress, once said, "A man's kiss is his signature." I grinned to myself. If that was true, then Ren's signature was the John Hancock of kisses.
Colleen Houck
#51. If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
Mahatma Gandhi
#52. When I was practicing psychology, I used to tell myself if I ever get to where I'm just doing this for the money or I'm just going through the motions, I'll quit.
Phil McGraw
#53. Pushing all doubts and fears aside, I let myself feel. Just this once I wanted to take this for myself. If it is all I would ever have of him, then I wanted to make it something to remember.
Jordan Silver
#54. Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work.
William Zinsser
#55. I couldn't live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.
Gloria Whelan
#56. I can't make exceptions for myself. If I can run, I will run. I don't have to feel good to do it.
Patricia Hamill
#57. Be still," he said, voice harsh. "I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
Deborah Harkness
#58. I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
Queen Latifah
#59. You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her."
Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would you do?"
"Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.
Melissa Marr
#60. Within the yogic philosophy, the edge is considered to be my creative teacher from whom I can learn about myself. If I approach this teacher/edge with love, sensitivity and awareness, I will discover that my teacher/edge will move and allow me a greater range of motion.
Ken Dychtwald
#61. I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!
Quentin Crisp
#62. I was at a U2 concert and someone asked me if my hair color was real ... I thought to myself, if I had $1 for every time someone asked me this, I would be very rich.
Angie Everhart
#63. What is it to you if I don't want others to want for me, if I want to want myself - if I want the impossible ...
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#64. It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.
Jessica Lange
#65. My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didn't dance.
Maddie Ziegler
#66. I saw you and thought to myself, 'If there's a God, please let me make love to her at least once before I die.
Mia Asher
#67. One of the most important rules for me is: Don't ever defend myself. If we could put this one principle into practice, how much more simple life would be.
Guy Finley
#68. At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.
Steven Pressfield
#69. I'm not mad, though," Kat said. "You lied to me, and I lied to you. We're even."
Finally he lost the grin. "When did you lie?"
She gave him a Sweet'N Low smile, as if his amusement had been poured into her. "Every time we messed around. I didn't actually enjoy myself, if you know what I mean.
Gena Showalter
#70. I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way tonight.
Meat Loaf
#71. But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.
Henry James
#72. I didn't start writing in order to express myself. If anything the opposite was true. I was just as interested in negating the I and the ego.
Rob Chapman
#73. Please, please don't try hurting me, my friends.
I wouldn't forgive myself If I had to kill you all.
Toba Beta
#74. The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a father. A son of mine! Oh no, no, no! May my entire flesh perish and may I transmit to no one the aggravations and the disgrace of existence.
Gustave Flaubert
#75. When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
Alanis Morissette
#76. The post office is raising the price of stamps again. I heard that and said to myself, 'If only there was an inexpensive electronic way of communicating.'
David Letterman
#77. Music appeared later. At first I was making people laugh with my funny stories. Live and on TV too. It was great, but I started to think that people will soon get bored from it. I have said to myself: "If you are going to go on being a superstar, you have to sing!"
Verka Serduchka
#78. Sometimes I catch myself if I'm shopping, and I'm like, 'I want to hide my thighs and my arms.' And then I kind of take a minute where I'm like, 'No, that's not really being kind to yourself. Maybe learn to embrace things that we're taught as women not to like.'
Kether Donohue
#79. It's much harder to play myself. If I ever do a movie again, it'll be a singing serial killer.
Neil Diamond
#80. I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I'm in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I'd just gone home with my swollen cheek.
Shannen Doherty
#81. So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I'm going to do it myself. I'm not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that's a big part of where I came from. I'm not a real prissy girl.
Carrie Underwood
#82. I believe that I've been asked all possible questions. I, myself, if I were a journalist, would not know what to ask me.
Jose Saramago
#83. No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.
Melissa George
#84. Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself - if they could live in my memories - would anyone, anyone, love me?
John Green
#85. He's good in bed, too?" Marnie asked, clearly skeptical. "That just isn't fair. If I looked like him, I'd
never leave my house. I'd just stay home and fuck myself. If you tell me he has a big dick, I might become either a cutter or a lesbian.
R.K. Lilley
#86. I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
Pat Paulsen
#87. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#88. Mother says she doesn't need the medication anymore, that the only cure for cancer is having a daughter who won't cut her hair and wears dresses too high above the knee even on a Sunday, because how knows what tackiness I'd do to myself if she died.
Kathryn Stockett
#89. At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.
Lauren Conrad
#90. I had to get into a place for myself of thinking what I would create for myself if I didn't have to worry about making money.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#91. should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience. Moreover,
Henry David Thoreau
#92. Being myself if the only miracle I can perform. Today I realized that's enough.
Kim Chandler McDonald
#93. I've always thought Marilyn Monroe looked fabulous, but I'd kill myself if I was that fat ... I went to see her clothes in the exhibition, and I wanted to take a tape measure and measure what her hips were. She was very big.
Elizabeth Hurley
#94. For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
Chris Evans
#95. I'd say I needed to find myself, if that didn't sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.
Kelley Armstrong
#96. You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.
Tom Goodman-Hill
#97. I couldn't help but ask myself if I was doing the smart thing. I wasn't, but sometimes the smart thing wasn't the same thing as the right thing
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#98. Trust me, you're not my first choice to fight next to, Sunshine, but as as much as it would simplify things, I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I left you to her tender mercies.
(Seth to Keenan as he comes to his aid against Bananach)
Melissa Marr
#99. I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.
Shannon Hoon
#100. I'll never forgive myself if I don't ask this, but knowing everything that you know, do you still want that kiss?
Daniele Lanzarotta
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