Itself Quotes

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

Coal research and development provides huge benefits for the nation, and pay for itself many times over through taxes flowing back to the Treasury from expanded economic activity.

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

The purpose of the Jewish state is to secure the Jewish future. That is why Israel must always have the ability to defend itself, against any threat.

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.