Itself Quotes

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

It was a good place for getting lost in, a city no one ever knew, a city explored from the neutral heart outward, until after many years, it defined itself into a jumble of clearings separated by stretches of the unknown, through which the narrowest of paths had been cut.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.

The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.

The involuntary character of psychiatric treatment is at odds with the spirit and ethics of medicine itself.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

I believe that all poetry is formal in that it exists within limits, limits that are either inherited by tradition or limits that language itself imposes.

The Beltway media went into caroming-off-the-walls hysterics over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, whipping itself into a flaming casserole even as Clinton's standing with the American people remained upright and firm, so to speak.

Of course, the genesis of a good portion of the gridlock in Congress does not reside in Congress itself. Ultimate reform will require each of us, as voters and Americans, to take a long look in the mirror, because in many ways, our representatives in Washington reflect the people who have sent them there.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

The United States is going to defend itself under any circumstances.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.