Itself Quotes

And to do that not only for the war fighter, but also to help prepare the people in the acquisition, personnel and policy worlds who need to make adjustments in the department's business, which itself may take 10 or 15 years to accomplish.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it!

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the velocity.

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.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.

Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.

One of my favorite things to do is play golf at Braemar Country Club. It's quiet and not overly crowded. The people are nice, and there's wildlife all around the course. As far as my game itself, I can go from a 10 handicap to a 30, depending on the day.