Itself Quotes

China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

What we define as a bubble is any kind of debt-fueled asset inflation where the cash flow generated by the asset itself - a rental property, office building, condo - does not cover the debt incurred to buy the asset. So you depend on a greater fool, if you will, to come in and buy at a higher price.

There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well.

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.

Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

I sometimes feel that a pattern is almost a fashion statement in itself.

The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself.

The record industry is a world within itself.

Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless.

Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.

The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.

An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.