Itself Quotes

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

It seems as if everybody in the country was getting impatient to get his or her particular soldier out of the Army and to upset the carefully arranged system of points for retirement which we had arranged with the approval of the Army itself.

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

This creature of the poem may assemble itself into a being with its own centrifugal force.

I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.

It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

I can remember when I was a baby and my mother was there watching the show. I went and bought 100 episodes and watched them. I respect it so much that the sitcom itself and Ed Norton; I'm not playing Ed Norton but my version of it, cause I'm a black man.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

I think the record speaks for itself. These are two individuals who have been for the war when the headlines were good and against it when their poll ratings were bad.

No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.

A relationship is hard in and of itself. And having kids is really hard work, but I think it's really meaningful, as is a relationship. But they all take work.

He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.

People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There's an immediacy of this day and age that doesn't lend itself to being committed to anything.

The question of sex will take care of itself.

Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa.