The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
Theodor Adorno
A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself.
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical... →
Alan Alda
Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
Brian Aldiss
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.
Art Alexakis
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Gordon W. Allport
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate... →
The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
Stephen Ambrose