Itself Quotes

I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think I'm an introvert, or quiet and moody. I've even heard some people say that there's a certain mystery or darkness about me. I'm not that way. I'm just really into what I do.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.

As the United States chains itself down with greater debt, China is building relationships across the globe to bolster its trade, its access to natural resources, and its energy consumption. In far too many cases, this means lost opportunities for America and our businesses.

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.

I think that in itself, if you're a true golfer, you'll see specific things you need to work on. Much cheaper than private lessons.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

Food is for eating, and good food is to be enjoyed... I think food is, actually, very beautiful in itself.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself.

Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

This source of corruption, alas, is inherent in the democratic system itself, and it can only be controlled, if at all, by finding ways to encourage legislators to subordinate ambition to principle.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

The consequences of President Johnson's campaign of deliberate deception regarding Vietnam could hardly have been more catastrophic for the nation, the military, the president, his party, and the presidency itself.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.