Itself Quotes

Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.

The Titanic will protect itself.

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy.

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.