Itself Quotes

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.

I have been defending Israel's right to exist, and to defend itself against terrorism, for many years-on college campuses, in television appearances and in debate.

Well, I think that there's a value to comedy in and of itself.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

Experience by itself is not science.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

By the end of an intense four years at UCLA, I had co-authored a new math proof, which the media, in fact, loved. As it turned out, math itself blazed my entry back into the spotlight and consequently into wonderful acting jobs like 'The West Wing' and others. You just never know, do you?

This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Night was running ahead of itself.

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

Now, the language that had grown up and formed itself on those principles is what one is dealing with, and the problem is to bring a work of art in that medium into another medium formed on different principles and heard and understood in a different way.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

Fury itself supplies arms.

Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.