Itself Quotes

I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

I don't know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it's there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

More recently, as faith gave way to materialism, anti-Semitism assumed a secular mode, harnessing itself to the dominant ideologies of both the Left and the Right.

One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.

For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.

The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

At Euro '92 itself, we bowed out to the eventual winners, Denmark, in our final group match.

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you.

The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.