Top 100 Itself Can Quotes
#1. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
Thomas Sowell
#2. The important thing is the willingness to give back the gift that is you, not the perfection of the gift itself. Can you feel the difference?
Richard Rohr
#3. Surrendering to life offers some wonderful realizations. We learn we're capable of being in this dance, of working with whatever happens. We learn to trust ourselves and then others and, gradually, we learn that life itself can be trusted.
Margaret J. Wheatley
#4. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.
Ronald Fisher
#5. We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.
Anthony Doerr
#6. Civilization itself ... can easily be swept aside when mob passions are aroused.
Steve Allen
#7. Even in a moment of stress, you can say, "OK, can I enjoy the doing itself? Can I enjoy the flow of energy of this moment?" And of course you can!
Eckhart Tolle
#8. Nothing within the universe itself can exist to explain the fact that it exists.
Guy Consolmagno
#9. In the best fiction, the language itself can become almost invisible.
Robert Morgan
#10. The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
Seth Low
#11. I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
Colin Meloy
#12. Emptiness itself can birth the fullness of grace beacuse in the emptiness we have the opportunity to turn to God, ...
Ann Voskamp
#13. There remains this belief that the work itself can have an identity that can speak, whether it's through beauty, or through ugliness, or whatever quality you put into the work. The work doesn't have to be a transparent vehicle for you to say things about life today.
Martin Puryear
#14. The old will disappear. Human level consciousness by itself can no longer resolve the complexities it has created.
David Spangler
#15. Literature has as one of its principal allures that it tells you something about life that life itself can't tell you. I just thought literature is a thing that human beings do.
Richard Ford
#16. Only the work of art itself can raise the standard of taste.
Diego Rivera
#17. If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it ... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.
Ernest Becker
#18. The priceless heritage of the free and independent interchange of thought is not to be kept without ceaseless vigilance. Only by guarding the truth itself can we guard the greatest of all our liberties-the right to proclaim the truth. On that liberty rests the destiny of millions.
Julius Elias, 1st Viscount Southwood
#19. The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends.
John Cassian
#20. If your clients know that you care about them, that's half the battle. Emotional support in itself can do wonders. After that you rely on your training and your wits.
A.S.A Harrison
#21. To a certain extent Milton is right - the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell
Donna Tartt
#22. Countries can be redeemed. Entire cultures can be brought to "salvation". The land itself can be healed ... And such miraculous change is brought about by one primary avenue: God working through the market place ... The primary means to true revival, though, takes place first in the market place.
Ed Silvoso
#23. A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.
Karl Kraus
#24. Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
Natalie Wood
#25. Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann Von Helmholtz
#26. Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.
Roger Scruton
#27. What means the fact
which is so common, so universal
that some soul that has lost all hope for itself can inspire in another listening soul an infinite confidence in it, even while it is expressing its despair?
Henry David Thoreau
#28. 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.
John Hutton
#29. If there is love enough,then nothing-not nature, not even death itself- can come between two who love each other.
Philippa Gregory
#30. If you can create a weapon that causes enough fear the fear itself can cause damage that's as paralyzing and destructive as any physical device like a bomb or a laser gun. Fear can make decent people behave irrationally and violently.
Patricia Cornwell
#31. No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#33. One name by itself can't fully represent God's majesty & power.
Tony Evans
#34. The Bible itself can be used for both good and evil. That doesn't mean it's flawed. It means that it is perfect.
Northern Adams
#35. Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism.
Henry Giroux
#36. If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.
Siri Hustvedt
#37. Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals.
Herman Melville
#38. Go to a place where you're not going to be stressed, because a honeymoon itself can be a stressful thing.
Diane Von Furstenberg
#39. The idea that memory is linear is nonsense. What we have in our heads is a collection of frames. As to time itself-can it be linear when all these snatches of other presents exist at once in your mind? A very elusive and tricky concept, time.
Penelope Lively
#40. Invention furnishes Art with all her materials, and without it, Judgement itself can at best but steal wisely.
Alexander Pope
#41. While to a certain extent Milton is right-the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hall and so forth-it is nonetheless clear that Plano was modeled less on Paradise than that other, more dolorous city.
Donna Tartt
#42. When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
Nhat Hanh
#43. Anyone who is not in love with the life itself can never find real happiness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#45. Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.
Hyman Bass
#46. Listen deeply. Meditate on that which is arising. Even if it's boredom or difficulty or maybe a feeling of being stuck, that in itself can be the work for your practice.
Rodney Yee
#47. Man, who is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself, can fully find himself only through a sincere gift of himself.
Pope John Paul II
#48. There is indeed one element in human destiny that not blindness itself can controvert: whatever else we are intended to do, we are not intended to succeed; failure is the fate allotted. It is so in every art and study; it is so above all in the continent art of living well.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#49. No work nor deed of ours whatsoever, no not faith itself, can be the condition of the covenant of grace properly so called; but only Christ's fulfilling all righteousness.
Thomas Boston
#50. For everything that has not successfully transcended itself can only fall prey to revivals without end.
Jean Baudrillard
#51. What factors external to the music itself can make it resonate for us. Is there a bar near the stage? Can you put it in your pocket? Do girls like it? Is it affordable?
David Byrne
#52. Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
Hannah Arendt
#53. But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.
Thomas Jefferson
#54. Gateway layers tend to take on more and more functionality, which itself can end up being a giant coupling point. And the more functionality something has, the greater the attack surface
Sam Newman
#55. The heart is greater than the universe, for it can find pity in it for everything in the universe, and the universe itself can feel no pity. The heart is greater than a King, because a heart can know a King for what he is, and still love him. And once you give your heart, you cannot take it back.
Neil Gaiman
#56. I don't think public life in and of itself can destroy you. I think it's the way people react to it, and some people are more sturdy than others ... I don't think any one faction can be blamed for a person's self destruction - a certain amount of that has to be innate.
Patti Smith
#57. Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul; dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.
Bryant McGill
#58. Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
Arundhati Roy
#59. While the destination of a journey is often the point of enjoyment; Remember, the voyage itself can be wondrous.
W.M. Montague
#60. If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.
Gore Vidal
#61. It is false that the will, left to itself, can do good as well as evil, for it is not free, but in bondage ... On the side of man there is nothing that goes before grace, unless it be impotency and even rebellion.
Martin Luther
#62. I like to think we were man and wife. Life itself can be sacramental. The supposition was that we would be leaving the Garden of Eden together, and would cleave to one another in the wilderness through thick and think.
Kurt Vonnegut
#63. We believe that the cinema's capacity for getting around, for observing and selecting from life itself can be exploited in a new and vital art form
John Grierson
#64. Only love itself can explain love and lovers.
Rumi
#65. But tolerance by itself can be a cover for moral laziness.
Bill McKibben
#66. I like old people when they have aged well. And old houses with an accumulation of sweet honest living in them are good. And the timelessness that only the passing of Time itself can give to objects both inside and outside the spirit is a continuing reassurance.
M.F.K. Fisher
#67. 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.
Pete Townshend
#68. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST
Blake Crouch
#69. I think the conscientious pursuit of happiness by itself can validate decisions to change, to try again, especially when failure to change will lead to lives of duplicity, dishonesty, and deceit.
Ben Bradlee
#70. Also, at a certain point relentlessness itself can become comedic.
Allan Weisbecker
#71. I think of setting as almost a character of its own, influencing the other characters in ways they're not even aware of. So much of the success of a good ghost story rides on creating a creepy atmosphere; details of the landscape itself can help create a sense of dread.
Jennifer McMahon
#72. I really believe that breath, in and of itself ... can become the ultimate self-healing tool.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#73. There are many museums dedicated to technology, artistic endeavors, music, and that sort of thing. From that perspective, I think games really do have a place as a kind of collaborative art or a synthesis of all these various aspects into a whole, and that, in itself, can be perceived as art.
Hideo Kojima
#75. I study much, and the more I study, the oftener I go back to those first principles which are so simple that childhood itself can lisp them.
Sophie Swetchine
#76. Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
John Dryden
#77. A team divided against itself can break down at any moment. The least bit of pressure or adversity will crack it apart
Bill Parcells
#78. Teamwork: I find it fascinating that a snowflake, by itself, can be so delicate; but when they team-up, they can close-down an entire city.
Steve Maraboli
#79. It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Jay Hooker
#80. There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.
Terry Tempest Williams
#81. Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ...
Steve Merrick
#82. Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those arguments. You actually have to rely on philosophy, on philosophy of science.
Rebecca Goldstein
#83. The United States prides itself on being the richest country in the world. Yet we can't balance the budget, pay for education, or take care of the aged and infirm.
Paul Hawken
#84. A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.
Chris Matakas
#85. The erasure itself became the action. It seemed to suggest a moment in terms of how sad or pessimistic you can feel in a political environment or a historical situation. But it felt like a really hopeful gesture in the painting.
Julie Mehretu
#86. The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#87. When it comes to making the right moves at the right time, your dance partner is life itself or what can be referred to as your destiny. The more you pay attention and practice intuitive decision making skills, the better you will become at sensing the unique rhythm of your life.
Paul O'Brien
#88. Ultimately you're trying to reach across and find some other person, some other human warmth. But it is, especially in written poetry, it is inscribed in a text and the text can't do that work by itself and you as a poet can only do your best.
Edward Hirsch
#89. Microsoft has gotten so big that it can put out a Preview that will install itself without checking first to see if it has expired. The message here is that Microsoft's time is worth more than yours ... no start-up company could get away with being that arrogant.
Jerry Pournelle
#90. Only meaning can make a difference and we all know there's no meaning. All stories express a desire for meaning, not meaning itself. Therefore any difference knowing the story makes is a delusion.
Glen Duncan
#91. Thus the sun which possesses light perfectly, can shine by itself; whereas the moon which has the nature of light imperfectly, sheds only a borrowed light.
Thomas Aquinas
#92. Of silence, I can say only what I have heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave
and so speech isn't itself, but its effect, and silence is the same.
Jesse Ball
#93. I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.
Kellyn Roth
#94. When we ask people to live their lives through our models, we are potentially reducing life itself. How can we ever know what we might be losing?
Jaron Lanier
#95. And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.
Pope Gregory I
#96. If I give a little hint or clue as to where my voice could be going, that would [be] read. Because people can listen closely, you know, you can sit with headphones or you just concentrate on music, you can just hear, sometimes, the desires of the voice itself.
Will Oldham
#97. Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.
Mary Stewart
#98. Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
Bill Joy
#100. Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself.
Mark Twain
