Itself Quotes

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

My image lends itself a little bit more to the modern fan, sometimes more toward the kids, and I guess more toward the wine drinkers... I mean, I have my own wine, and fans love to pull for people they relate to.

When it comes to films, people often don't differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

Every city across the country that has successfully renewed and revitalized itself points to a robust education system as its fundamental key to success.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

It's very confusing when fame comes early on in your career. You get a little bit bent out of shape in terms of what's important. Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I think that one of the problems that jazz has is that it's so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I'd rather let the music speak for itself.

I think the play on words for 'Punky' Brewster has definitely played itself out.

I think they say that when you're breast feeding, you know, your weight kind of slims down. It's a little easier. It's like a workout within itself. It's very tiring actually and you find yourself snacking more often.

Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of achieving a free society.

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.