Word: oneself
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that was ever launched across the sea against a hostile shore . . . This is what I found out about religion: it gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis, and then the confidence to leave the result to higher power. Only by trust in oneself and trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose...
...used to be simply Gheorghe Gheorghiu until he spent so much time in Rumania's Dej prison in pre-Red days that he tacked Dej on to his name, a Balkan equivalent of calling oneself Alphonse Capone-Alcatraz or Lucky Luciano-Sing Sing...
...India it was the way that stressed the preservation of the best that man has attained; in Japan the ways that stressed sympathetic concern for other persons and stoical self-control; in China the ways that stressed identification with the group for the achievement of social goals and letting oneself be an instrument of the great powers at work in the world...
After a few days in Stockholm I found myself asking people, "Isn't there anything wrong with Sweden? There must be." And there is. One government official said: "In a country that has established an orderly society, there comes a time when one begins to ask oneself 'What next...
...This was due mainly to the concessions Amory made to the latter. The story is set in modern Boston, which perhaps adds to its credulity. A young man, spoken somewhat inaudibley by Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants to "be somebody" by killing someone he thinks necessary to the world. He actually kills...