Itself Quotes

Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.

I became startled by the extraordinary difference between something whose surface is completely invisible which only makes itself present by virtue of what it reflects, and a window, which doesn't make itself apparent at all, in the ideal case.

To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.

I have to be motivated, and I'm sure time will avail itself.

Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society is sick beyond saving, and that mercy itself pleads for its swift extinction and replacement by another.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.

Time itself comes in drops.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

I'm not really quiet or shy. Ask any of my friends! But I always ground my poetry in life itself. Poetry is an art of language, though, so I am always aware of every word's meaning, or multiple meanings.

Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical in itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.