Top 100 Itself The Quotes
#1. That's what Alice liked about the desert, its constant relentless conflict with itself. The desert was unexpectedly beautiful and horrible at once.
Joy Williams
#2. Passion now begins to wake
and whom we desire, we will take
then we'll cut them down to the quick
love itself the cruelest trick.
Moved we are by loves sweet song
though it plays not for long
we can blow on embers bright
till passion outtakes the light.
Nancy Holder
#3. You [God] are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its light, and causes me to know your truth and I know that you are beauty and wisdom itself. The food of angels, you give yourself to man in this fire of your love
St. Catherine Of Siena
#4. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Albert Camus
#5. Patriarchy requires violence or the subliminal threat of violence in order to maintain itself ... The most dangerous situation for a woman is not an unknown man in the street, or even the enemy in wartime, but a husband or lover in the isolation of their home.
Gloria Steinem
#6. The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.
Henry Giroux
#7. It's not about how to achieve your dreams, it's about how to lead your life, ... If you lead your life the right way, the karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you.
Randy Pausch
#8. Inequality is not necessarily bad in itself: the key question is to decide whether it is justified, whether there are reasons for it.
Thomas Piketty
#9. I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers.
Cynthia Hand
#10. History is a yarn. And can I deny that what I wanted all along was not some golden nugget that history would at last yield up, but History itself: the Grand Narrative, the filler of vacuums, the dispeller of fears of the dark?
Graham Swift
#11. Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power by itself. The power lies in how much something stands out from its context.
Nancy Duarte
#12. In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself ... The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.
Louis Antoine De Saint-Just
#13. The disease of philosophy. - Philosophy is itself the disease for which it pretends to be the cure: the wise man does not pursue wisdom but lives his life, and therein precisely does his wisdom lie.
Bruce Lee
#15. We have to see that the economy is not "in" crisis, the economy is itself the crisis. It's not that there's not enough work, it's that there is too much of it.
The Invisible Committee
#16. Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that's too grand, too considered a process. History just burps, and we taste again that raw-onion sandwich it swallowed centuries ago.
Julian Barnes
#17. My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.
Francis Bacon
#18. Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it.
Edward Bond
#19. The point of Political Correctness is not and has never been merely about any of the items that it imposes, but about the imposition itself. (The Rise of Political Correctness)
Angelo Codevilla
#20. DO NOT BE CONCERNED WITH THE FRUIT OF YOUR ACTION - just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord. This is a powerful spiritual practice.
Eckhart Tolle
#21. From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.
Thomas Jefferson
#22. Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.
Paul Bowles
#23. His stomach tried to propel itself out of his throat. His mouth hinged open all by itself - the better to upchuck you with, my dear - and shot out five gods, a very slimy rock, quite a lot of nectar, some biscuits, and a chariot license plate. (No, I don't know how all that got in there.)
Rick Riordan
#24. This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
J.I. Packer
#25. Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.
Eden Phillpotts
#26. Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly discover that the bridge is broken, and that there is a chasm below. That chasm was life itself, the bridge that artificial life in which Aleksey Aleksandrovich had lived.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. If you allow your mind to carp at all and sundry, it will turn against itself: the majority of our sorrows are self-inflicted.
Rabindranath Tagore
#28. Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it is no longer needed.
Barack Obama
#29. In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.
Jack Kerouac
#30. The big problem of any young person's life is to have models to suggest possibilities. Nietzsche says, 'Man is the sick animal.' Man is the animal that doesn't know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life. What are we going to do with ourselves?
Joseph Campbell
#31. The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'
Ludwig Von Mises
#32. The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
Sebastian Barry
#33. The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.
Rabindranath Tagore
#34. First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.
Mason Cooley
#35. Language is almost the most unique creation of humankind which defines itself; the alternative way of communication/comprehension/conception, yet overusing any invention, can cause Alienation.
Fereidoon Yazdi
#36. Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth.
Swami Vivekananda
#37. The mistake of all the religions is to look outside the world for explanations of the world, rather than rethinking the world itself, so that it offers up its own explanations for itself. The world itself must be self-explanatory.
Rebecca Goldstein
#38. Silence ... is the essence of the music itself, the vital ingredient that makes it possible for the music to exist at all.
Alfred Brendel
#39. The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#40. Exactly!' The pandit beamed again. 'So think about the colour of that leaf from the perspective of the leaf itself, the colours it absorbs and the one it rejects. Is its colour green? Or is it every single colour in the world except green?
Amish Tripathi
#41. In itself the title of world champion does not give any significicant advantages, if it is not acknowledged by the entire chess world, and a champion who does not have the chess world behind him is, in my view, a laughing-stock.
Emanuel Lasker
#42. The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
George Orwell
#43. It was that sleep itself - the act of closing the eyes and relinquishing control of her consciousness - was something she was temperamentally unsuited to.
Clive Barker
#44. How do people imagine the landscapes they find themselves in? How does the land shape the imaginations of the people who dwell in it? How does desire itself, the desire to comprehend, shape knowledge?
Barry Lopez
#45. Real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
Agnes Repplier
#46. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.
Honore De Balzac
#47. The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#48. What is drama, and what is dharma? I guess you could say drama is illusion that acts like truth, and dharma is truth itself - the way things are, the basic state of reality that does not change from day to day according to fashion or our mood or agenda.
Ponlop Rinpoche, Dzogchen
#49. It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.
Vanna Bonta
#50. Satin Island, like all books, contains hundreds of borrowings, echoes, remixes and straight repetitions. To list them all would take up as much space as the text itself. The critical reader can entertain him- or herself tracking some of them down, if he or she is that way inclined.
Tom McCarthy
#51. Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity.
Jean Baptiste Massillon
#52. He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary.
Thomm Quackenbush
#53. itself. The bypass was originally conceived with no
Barbara Allan
#54. 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.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#55. The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.
Felix Adler
#56. The idea was that the record itself ['The Bones Of What You Believe' ] is a kind of labour of love for us - all our energy and all our passion and all the stuff we believed in is in that record, so you're kind of handing that off to other people, if that makes sense.
Lauren Mayberry
#57. Hell, rationality itself - the exalted Human ability to reason - hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will.
Peter Watts
#58. During the act of knowledge itself, the objective and subjective are so instantly united, that we cannot determine to which of the two the priority belongs.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#59. Whichever way I turn, whatever phase of social life presents itself, the same conviction comes: Independent bread alone can redeem woman from her curse of subjection to man.
Susan B. Anthony
#60. Good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Aristotle.
#61. Helvetica was a real step from the 19th century typeface ... We were impressed by that because it was more neutral, and neutralism was a word that we loved. It should be neutral. It shouldn't have a meaning in itself. The meaning is in the content of the text and not in the typeface.
Wim Crouwel
#62. Sister, forbear, or I shall hate thee soon, And the dead man will hate thee too, with cause. Say I am mad and give my madness rein To wreck itself; the worst that can befall Is but to die an honorable death. ISMENE
Sophocles
#63. No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David Thoreau
#64. The world is the puzzle, itself. The one who solves this 'puzzle' attains the degree of Parmatma [the Absolute Supreme Self].
Dada Bhagwan
#65. Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
Annie Besant
#66. Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.
Marcel Proust
#67. There's no independent satisfaction without the success of the film itself. The feel that you have done the best you can to support the film.
Harrison Ford
#68. The abyss is full of reality, the abyss experiences itself, the abyss is alive.
Denis Johnson
#69. It is your ego that needs to explain itself. The self just is.
Kamand Kojouri
#70. [It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. [ ... ] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)
Neil Postman
#72. Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming.
Carl Jung
#73. 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
#74. After the church ceased to exist, an outfit calling itself the First Amendment Protection Society, Inc. - the largest operator of adult bookstores, topless bars, Internet porn sites, and karaoke cocktail lounges in the United States - intimidated
Dean Koontz
#75. It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.
Leo Tolstoy
#76. All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost ... Each human soul has in a sense to enact for itself the gigantic humility of the Incarnation. Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
G.K. Chesterton
#77. A lot of faith is placed upon the airline itself. The FAA has never and will never have enough resources to completely monitor the airlines.
Wayne Williams
#78. The electric network selling itself: The medium is the message
Allen Ginsberg
#79. An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.
Wallace Stevens
#80. The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.
Jay Maisel
#81. Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#82. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.
Oscar Wilde
#83. For the soul, understand, is itself the whole world.
Edgar Maass
#84. Humanity will find in itself the power to live for virtue even without believing in immortality. It will find it in love for freedom, for equality, for fraternity.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#85. This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.
Gregory David Roberts
#86. Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
Noam Chomsky
#87. What's this war in the heart of Nature? Why does Nature vie with itself? The Land contend with the Sea? Is there an avenging power in Nature? Not one power, but two?
Terrence Malick
#88. Usually if nobody hates a piece, nobody loves it, either; and a magazine which sets itself the goal of provoking thought is not doing its job if everybody agrees with what it does.
Stanley Schmidt
#89. The sound of the kettle boiling was in itself the sound of normality, of reason, the sound of a fight back against the sadness of things.
Alexander McCall Smith
#90. Psychoanalysis comes down to the process itself - the self, and life. I think I can say that I'm friends with the unconscious life, but I've never tried to make a painting directly from a dream.
Malcolm Morley
#91. I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
Helene Cixous
#92. The Buddha never intended to make desire itself the problem. When he said craving causes suffering, he was referring not to our natural inclination as living beings to have wants and needs, but to our habit of clinging to experience that must, by nature, pass away.
Tara Brach
#93. All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
Henry David Thoreau
#94. Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald A. Norman
#95. Svanaja includes in itself the whole subject, officials and ministers. If there is something wrong in the conduct of these people, it would be damaging the state. An administrator should strictly deal with it.
Chanakya
#96. The future of Africa lies not with external actors but within Africa itself. The future of Africa lies here in Africa.
Paul Boateng
#97. State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.
Quoted in The Situationists and the City, pg. 194
Friedrich Engels
#98. The master is already merged into existence. Merging into the master you are really merging with existence itself. The master functions only as a door, and a door is an emptiness; you pass through it. The master is the door to the beyond.
Rajneesh
#99. Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
Larry Kramer
#100. Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
