Itself Quotes

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.

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.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks.

Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.

It's well known by now that I had a special need to get Maureen's goat when ever the opportunity presented itself. I was a boy and she was the enemy... a girl.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

The United Nations is a mess, riddled with scandals. In fact, the U.N. itself is a scandal.

A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing.

Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then close my eyes and go at it. Yes, I can touch type.

To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.

I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.

Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.

The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.