Itself Quotes

It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within.

I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself.

There is nothing I can do about this stuff and I am pretty well ok with the fact that I think Sundance is not going to be stopped by it, because he Festival is itself now, and doesn't need me out there to talk about it like I did years ago.

Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

The kitchen really is the castle itself. This is where we spend our happiest moments and where we find the joy of being a family.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic.

I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.