Itself Quotes

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control.

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.

Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

I have always preferred the reflect of the life to life itself.

More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

For too long, opponents of the PATRIOT Act have transformed this law into a grossly distorted caricature that bears no relation to the legislation itself.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.

When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.

So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with good, is just as important as how you deal with bad.

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.