Top 100 Itself It Quotes
#1. Even North Korean people who are not necessarily happy with economic policies are still loyal to the state itself. It's a military-first state, so whether it does very well on the economic front or not, is not central to public support for it.
Brian Reynolds Myers
#2. A word has power in and of itself. It comes from nothing into sound and meaning; it gives origin to all things.
N. Scott Momaday
#3. Worship the spirit of criticism. If reduced to itself it is not an awakener of ideas or a stimulant to great things, but, without it, everything is fallible; it always has the last word.
Louis Pasteur
#4. While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.
Sharon Salzberg
#5. When you learn economy. It strips away self-indulgence. Just in the act itself it requires a certain amount of humility. You have to accept the fact that you might feel you can do better but in the moment you have to make a choice.
Charlie Huston
#6. Khepra was asserted to have generated and caused to come into existence, itself through itself, it united in itself, the male and female principles of life.
Isaac Myer
#7. FIGHT FOR THE EARTH: The earth can't speak for itself, it will just slowly die if we don't fight for it.
Hazel Hawke
#8. In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else - by turning it into a spectacular subcultural style.
McKenzie Wark
#9. It is not good in itself; it is good only to the extent that it promotes the good of the individuals who are the parts of the collective whole. To give organizations precedence over persons is to subordinate ends to means.
Aldous Huxley
#10. AAaargwannawannaaaagongongonaargggaaaaBLOON!" which is the traditional sound of a very small child learning that with balloons, as with life itself, it is important to know when not to let go of the string. The whole point of balloons is to teach small children this.
Terry Pratchett
#11. For order and a society to exist - and a basketball team is a society within itself - it needs discipline.
Joe B. Hall
#12. I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
Antony Beevor
#14. Magic is magic. It isn't good or bad in and of itself. It's the intent that matters. Ideally, you treat magic as a gift and you use it to influence natural forces to help and to heal. It's a positive act.
Dani Harper
#15. Think of the 40 years of confrontation. What is it we gained? ... The old style has exposed itself: it is fruitless.
Sergey Akhromeyev
#16. It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#17. You shouldn't hear the guitar by itself. It should be part of the whole ... You only notice the guitar when it's not there
Freddie Green
#18. If one of you has seriously sinned, repent - now. It is not good to violate the commandments of the Lord. It is worse to do nothing about it. Sin is like cancer in the body. It will never heal itself. It will become progressively worse unless cured through the medicine of repentance.
Richard G. Scott
#19. Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.
Immanuel Kant
#20. If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
Willa Cather
#21. The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.
Igor Stravinsky
#23. Space has no "existence." "To exist" literally means "to stand out." You cannot understand space because it doesn't stand out. Although in itself it has no existence, it enables everything else to exist. Silence has no existence either, nor does the unmanifested.
Eckhart Tolle
#24. Below lies the dark core, that great iron ball beneath all things. Its compressed weight is fantastic; it is older than time itself. It is a vestige of the blackness that predates all existence, when a formless universe existed in a state of chaotic un-creation, lacking awareness even of itself.
Justin Cronin
#25. The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified.
Karl Marx
#26. I want to get under the surface. When I work with a leaf, rock, stick, it is not just that material in itself, it is an opening into the processes of life within and around it. When I leave it, these processes continue.
Andy Goldsworthy
#27. While I understand that all things must come to an end, whether it's a television advertisement or one's life or the world itself, it doesn't make it any easier to deal with.
John Hodgman
#28. A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.
Ayn Rand
#29. The problem isn't the desire itself, it's the context. You need more sexually relevant stimuli activating the accelerator and fewer things hitting the brake.
Emily Nagoski
#30. Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#31. Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
Annie Besant
#32. As long as the mind is seeking to fill itself, it will always be empty. When the mind is no longer concerned with filling its own emptiness, then only does that emptiness cease to be.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#33. Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
Antonio Munoz Molina
#34. What is true of the NFL is that it has been well-managed over the years. And that has been beneficial to the fans, it's been beneficial to the game itself, it's been beneficial to the players, coaches and everyone involved.
Roger Goodell
#35. We need material development, but we need to understand that by itself it doesn't bring peace of mind.
Dalai Lama
#36. Actors are there to represent the human condition back to itself. It's never about the actor. It's about the content. That's what I strive for in my work.
Debra Lawrance
#37. Thus is youth constituted; it quickly wipes its eye; it believes sorrow useless and does not accept it. Youth is the smile of the future before an unknown being which is itself. It is natural for it to be happy. IT seems as though it breathed hope.
Victor Hugo
#38. They say martyrdom is the highest rank a believer can achieve! Do not believe in this! The highest rank is the life itself, it is the existence itself! There is no rank in death, but only nothingness! Rank exists only in life! Stick to the life, stay away from death! Neither kill nor die!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#39. The process is only a means to an end-creating the painting I want. It doesn't mean anything itself. It's only a way of creating a result.
Jackson Pollock
#40. Psychic awareness leads to a true perception not only of events, but just of life itself. It is its own raison d'etre.
Frederick Lenz
#41. History does not repeat itself. It is men who never learned from the past who repeat history.
Rei Lemuel Crizaldo
#42. Art is not an end in itself. It introduces the soul into a higher spiritual order, which it expresses and in some sense explains.
Thomas Merton
#43. I think music should be tarted up, made into a prostitute, a parody of itself. It should be the clown, the Pierrot medium.
David Bowie
#44. Stendhal wrote that music was the highest form of art and that all the other forms really wanted to be music. This was of course a Platonic idea, all the other art forms depict something else, music is the only one that is something in itself, it was absolutely incomparable.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#45. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.
Anna Julia Cooper
#46. Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment ... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
#47. I think it's a fallacy to say that a good book sells itself. It doesn't happen. I'm a voracious reader and I can give you a long list of books which should have been best sellers but they aren't. How can you buy a book if you haven't heard of it?
Amish Tripathi
#48. The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.
Philip Johnson
#49. No spiritual mind remains within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its own strength.
Michel De Montaigne
#50. My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#52. I always tell younger filmmakers, it's not just about the acting or the art itself. It's about how big of an audience watches your film.
Donnie Yen
#53. The funny thing about work itself, it was so bearable. The dreariest task was perfectly bearable. It presented challenges to overcome, the distraction provided by a sense of urgency, and the things made work utterly, even harmoniously bearable.
Joshua Ferris
#54. Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.
Jentezen Franklin
#55. Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace
#56. What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go away. It has gone on from the beginning of time with little performances around a campfire, I'd imagine, like cavemen doing some chants, rhythm, and sounds, beating on things.
Juliette Lewis
#57. Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman
#58. Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
Ruth St. Denis
#59. It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
Yo-Yo Ma
#60. The key decision for a statesman is whether to commit his nation or not. There is no middle course. Once a great nation commits itself, it must prevail. It will acquire no kudos for translating its inner doubts into hesitation.
Henry A. Kissinger
#61. (Later, Giddle's response when I told her I was in love: "Oh God, I'm so sorry. Love is awful. It ruins every normal thing, everything but itself. It makes you crazy and for nothing, because it's so disappointing. But good luck with that.")
Rachel Kushner
#62. The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which, whilst strong, required no enunciation to prove it so.
Thomas Hardy
#63. Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.
David James Duncan
#64. I believe the body can take care of itself. It's all about self-health. It's about depending on our breathing.
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
#65. Playing scales is like a boxer skipping rope or punching a bag. It's not the thing in itself; it's preparatory to the activity
Barney Kessel
#66. I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.
Patti Smith
#67. Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.
Charles Baudelaire
#68. When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.
Stewart Brand
#69. Data can't speak for itself; it's up to you to give it a voice. Try to speak truthfully.
Ronald Coase
#70. There's just certain styles of playing that you do play in your own way. Maybe it's in the way your fingers bend, for all I know. And so whenever you pick up the guitar it's not so much the sound of the instrument itself, it's like the ting that you add onto it-the attitude.
Keith Richards
#71. It's cool when fashion recycles itself, it's not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.
Cameron Conaway
#72. Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Oscar Wilde
#73. Alpha sets the scale of nature
the size of atoms and all things made of them, the intensity and colors of light, the strength of magnetism, and the metabolic rate of life itself. It controls everything that we see ... In 137, apparently, science had found Nature's PIN Code.
Frank Close
#74. The energy is important. It's the rebirth of the character. Even more than the sentence itself, it's the energy that has to come through. It's really 'Thank you!
Jean Dujardin
#75. The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience.
Marcus Aurelius
#76. Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder
#77. There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
Calvin Trillin
#78. Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#79. It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength.
Michel De Montaigne
#80. If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated.
Herman Koch
#81. Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.
David Crystal
#82. A visit to a cinema is a little outing in itself. It breaks the monotony of an afternoon or evening; it gives a change from the surroundings of home, however pleasant.
Ivor Novello
#83. Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.
Fay Weldon
#84. Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
Andrew O'Hagan
#85. [The photograph] is the object itself ... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.
Andre Bazin
#86. That was how evil magnified itself: it took root in the young and grew along with them.
Claudia Gray
#87. When you recognize the sacredness, the beauty, the incredible stillness and dignity in which a flower or a tree exists, you add something to the flower or the tree. Through your recognition, your awareness, nature too comes to know itself. It comes to know its own beauty and sacredness through you.
Eckhart Tolle
#88. Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.
A.R. Rahman
#89. Subordination to morality can be slavish or vain or self- interested or resigned or gloomily enthusiastic or thoughtless or an act of despair, just as subordination to a prince can be: in itself it is nothing moral.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#90. Description needs to slide into a story like a snake through grass - silently, almost invisibly, without calling attention to itself. It should enrich every story moment without slowing the action.
Marion Dane Bauer
#91. Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.
Flannery O'Connor
#93. Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. JOHN 15:4
Anne Graham Lotz
#94. Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
Karen Armstrong
#95. As for the play itself, it is perhaps the most popular and well-known of all Shakespeare's works and is also the longest and arguably the most difficult to understand.
William Shakespeare
#96. Over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?
May Sarton
#97. And how bewildered is any womb-born creature
that has to fly. As if terrified and fleeing
from itself, it zigzags through the air, the way
a crack runs through a teacup. So the bat
quivers across the porcelain of evening.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#98. The mechanism thus created periodically acts out post-modern notions of cosmology and then deconstructs itself. It has met with great admiration and no little puzzlement.
Michael Swanwick
#99. The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing.
Jimmy Rushing
#100. For love is like a tree; it grows of itself; it send its roots deep into our being, and often continues to grow green over a heart in ruins.
Victor Hugo
