Itself Quotes

I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.

It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

At Geneva, the neutral states were often in agreement concerning the preliminaries for Genoa, and Genoa itself was marked by a quite natural mutual exchange of ideas.

The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

There can, therefore, be no doubt that Presbyterians do carry out the principle that Church power vests in the Church itself, and that the people have a right to a substantive part in its discipline and government.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

President Obama has said that our aspirations should be realistic. We are not going to turn one of the poorest countries in the world, that was plunged into 30 years of war, into an advanced, industrialized, Western-style democracy. What we want to achieve is Afghanistan's capacity to secure and govern itself.

I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees.

Information about the package is as important as the package itself.

The salability of an item can often be improved while the value itself remains unchanged.

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

Every mind which has given itself to self-expression in art is aware of a directing agency outside its conscious control which it has agreed to label 'inspiration'.

The Nobel Peace Prize has become hopelessly politicized. I think it cheapens the prize itself.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Love remembered and consecrated by grief belongs, more clearly than the happy intercourse of friends, to the eternal world; it has proved itself stronger than death.

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.

One must ease the public into it - that's an art in itself.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'