Itself Quotes

One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.

If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

All is connected... no one thing can change by itself.

In general, science journalism concerns itself with what has been published in a handful of peer-reviewed journals - Nature, Cell, The New England Journal of Medicine - which set the agenda.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.