Itself Quotes

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people - the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.

Business is in itself a power.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

With Barack Obama as president and the super-happening Michelle Obama as First Lady, you would think a new tone, a new tune, a kicky new jazzitude, would have entered Washington discourse, but it remains a landlocked island unto itself, held captive by its tribal fevers.

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it.

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

It is during difficult times like this that the true American spirit reveals itself. I am not talking only of the response of local, state, and federal governments, although they will each play an extremely important role in this effort.

Love gives itself; it is not bought.

History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.

When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.

Order doesn't come by itself.

It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

But last year there were 540,000 people, roughly, detained coming across the border illegally. Forty-five thousand of them came from countries other than Mexico, demonstrating the fact that Mexico itself now is a pathway into the United States for people all around the world, and we don't know what their intentions are.