Itself Quotes

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.

The greatest teacher I know is the job itself.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I never felt the same passion for the game in the States and there were a lot of headaches, a lot of obstacles to overcome - it didn't just run itself for the love of the game because soccer is not the No. 1 sport as it is in Europe.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Then there is the further question of what is the relationship of thinking to reality. As careful attention shows, thought itself is in an actual process of movement.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.

I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.

But we need to show that the EU can modernise itself, can adapt to the needs of its citizens, can take their views into account. That will be our ambition for the UK Presidency.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

The spirit of logical analysis should in practice blend with the practical pressure for the adoption of some form of international language, but it should not allow itself to be stampeded by it.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.