Top 100 Quotes About Itself
#1. Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal.
Mike Yaconelli
#2. The stunning beauty of the waning day was a stark contrast to the horrors we'd just witnessed, as if nature itself wanted to wipe away the memory of those monstrosities.
L.D. Goffigan
#3. The rich do not have to invest enough in the poorest countries to make them rich; they need to invest enough so that these countries can get their foot on the economic ladder ... Economic development works. It can be successful. It tends to build on itself. But it must get started.
Jeffrey Sachs
#4. Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
Frans Lanting
#5. But the fact being once established, that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave to others to restore it to its strength, by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that, it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and of civil liberty.
Thomas Jefferson
#7. If you remember, we have already shown that the only observers we know of are ourselves, biological entities whose interpretations of reality are not reality itself.
Joseph Kazden
#8. Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
H. Rap Brown
#9. I think the future takes care of itself.
Pam Bondi
#10. It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.
Satya Nadella
#11. Strength, wanting judgment and policy to rule, overturneth itself.
Horace
#12. A well-thought-out story doesn't need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.
Isaac Babel
#13. If the sun could do all the work by itself
there would be no need for stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#14. Adolescent stage in the development of the human race from which humanity should free itself.
Sigmund Freud
#15. Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
Aberjhani
#17. We could say that the totality, life wants the sapling to become a tree, but the sapling doesn't see itself as separate from life and so wants nothing for itself. It is one with what life wants. That's why it isn't worried or stressed. And, if it has to die prematurely, it dies with ease..
Eckhart Tolle
#18. As long as our souls remain strong, that is all that matters; as long as they don't decline. Because with the fall of certain souls in this world, the world itself will collapse. These are the pillars which support it. They are few, but enough.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#19. It is the natural and inherent impulse of life to seek to live more, it is the nature of intelligence to enlarge itself, and of consciousness to seek to extend its boundaries and find fuller expression.
Wallace D. Wattles
#21. AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.
Bill Gates
#23. I don't teach narrative theory by itself anymore, but I kind of use it when critiquing student manuscripts. So, it works its way in there, whether I like it or not.
Rob Roberge
#24. Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
Epictetus
#25. A criminal mind needs consideration rather than the criminal itself. In truth, there are more criminals than those who committed a crime.
Harshit Walia
#26. Some dreams fade away like a current in a stream. Others burn like a light that won't burn out no matter what life throws at you. That's when a dream turns itself into a vision and a true vision won't die
Scott Coner
#27. She might have to use her employee discount to buy something more threatening today, although at the moment the most dangerous thing she could think of that Neiman Marcus had to offer was the employee discount itself.
Stephanie Bond
#28. I started working with Bob in 1965. We did go through a lot of changes from 65 to 74, a lot of changes. By 1974, everything had straightened itself out.
Rick Danko
#29. Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
Steve Earle
#30. Resentment and gratitude cannot coexist, since resentment blocks the perception and experience of life as a gift. My resentment tells me that I don't receive what I deserve. It always manifests itself in envy.
Henri Nouwen
#31. The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all their judgements. Everything they produce is the result of thinking for themselves and already in the way it is spoken everywhere announces itself as such.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#32. It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
Wendy McElroy
#33. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.
Criss Jami
#34. Along with the lazy man ... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
Michel De Certeau
#35. When Louis relaxed, it was an indication that a threat was at hand and he was preparing to act, as when an archer releases a breath simultaneously with the flight of an arrow, channeling all of the tension into the flighted missile itself.
John Connolly
#36. Here we shall have to say simply that all government expenditures must eventually be paid out of the proceeds of taxation; that inflation itself is merely a form, and a particularly vicious form, of taxation.
Henry Hazlitt
#37. Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us.
Marilynne Robinson
#38. Just like existence itself, the dream was complicated and absurd.
Kirk Vonnegut
#39. Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
Leo Tolstoy
#40. Negativity feeds on itself, thereby compounding the potentially undesirable outcomes.
Steven Redhead
#41. I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.
DJ Spooky
#44. Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
Marlon James
#45. No work is worse than overwork; the mind preys on itself,
the most unwholesome of food.
Charles Lamb
#46. Few influential people involved with the Internet claim that it is a good in and of itself. It is a powerful tool for solving social problems, just as it is a tool for making money, finding lost relatives, receiving medical advice, or, come to that, trading instructions for making bombs.
Esther Dyson
#47. The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
Norman Rockwell
#48. Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.
Ron Rosedale
#49. I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.
Drake Bell
#50. Israel itself is the strongest guarantee against another Holocaust.
Golda Meir
#51. was freed to truly consider how I wished to live - specifically, how do I live free in this black body? It is a profound question because America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. I
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#52. In our relentless pursuit of the almighty A and the perfect GPA, something got lost - learning. Grades became the be-all and end-all, the goal itself, not an indicator of achieving the goal of learning. Grades have become the commodity, the badge of success and smarts, the ticket to college.
Cathy Vatterott
#53. Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
Madeleine L'Engle
#54. I realized that a tree never says, "I have too many branches." It simply digs deeper roots, expands itself to catch more light, and extends itself in multiple directions so as not to be unevenly weighted.
Brenda Strong
#55. ...this feeling that the air was tearing itself apart.
David Mark
#56. I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow certain governments - they're using terrorist tactics. They're not going in there like, 'Hey, you wanna have some cake?'
Lupe Fiasco
#57. If a lion could speak, it would not understand itself.
Michael Frayn
#58. She'd always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty seemed to come tethered to confidence. She craved that more than anything.
Tessa Dare
#59. As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I don't wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.
J.M. Coetzee
#60. There's really nothing to fear but fear itself. And trolls. Fear and trolls. Oh, and I guess gigans and dragons too. And can't forget wicked witches. Yeah, I guess there really is a lot to fear.
Betsy Schow
#61. Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive.
Mitch Albom
#63. The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
Aaron Belz
#64. Truly?" His face held such a tender look. It made her heart trip over itself.
Melanie Dickerson
#65. Oh boo hoo, everyone's life was hard, and if you'd survived the hardship, why write about it? Survival itself was enough.
Meg Wolitzer
#66. The greatest secret to living a happy, fulfilled life is the realization that everything is created in our minds before it manifests itself in the outer world. We must believe it before we can see it.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#67. Buddhism doesn't come from anybody. It exists by itself.
Frederick Lenz
#68. The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.
Thomas Merton
#69. The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
D. A. Carson
#70. The rejection was bigger than the present moment itself.
Olivia Sudjic
#71. I don't like sewing machines. I don't understand how a needle with a thread going through the tip of it can interlock the thread by jamming itself into a little goddamn spool. It's contrary to nature and it irritates me.
Neal Stephenson
#72. The trip itself was the usual...adulation from all sides, rose petals strewn in my path everywhere I went, silver bells festooning the howdah on my private white elephant...you know the drill. I maintained my customary demeanor or regal calm and enigmatic silence throughout.
Charlotte MacLeod
#74. There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
J. William Fulbright
#75. Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.
Dogen
#76. Dance is more than an art form; it is life itself.
Marty Rubin
#77. An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
#79. life itself is anything beyond a heartless little chimera- it is as real in its weariness and bitter heartache
Miles Franklin
#80. The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
Jeffrey Archer
#81. There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.
Tony Hsieh
#82. A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought
Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade,
Should find no burden but itself and yet should be worn out.
It could not bear that burden and therefore it went mad.
William Butler Yeats
#83. Any system that contradicts itself can never be wrong, and welcome to the world of contradictions ...
Steve Merrick
#84. The True Self always has something good to say. The False Self babbles on, largely about itself.
Richard Rohr
#85. It disguises itself as motor vehicle knowledge, but really it's physics, which any other time would be fascinating but not right now, not while you're trying to learn to drive.
Polly Horvath
#86. One interview would lead us to another interview, which led us to another interview. We had the questions and the idea of chonicling this moment in time. But we didn't have a movie, per se. As we started interviewing people, it started to kind of define itself.
Keanu Reeves
#87. What do you want to be, free or happy? How about if they really are mutually exclusive options? What is freedom anyway? How does humanity govern itself when each person can have anything they want? How does humanity govern itself when nothing is natural?
Jo Walton
#88. The appropriation of the creativity-procreativity metaphor by women is a conscious challenge to traditional poetics and beyond that to traditional metaphysics, for the gynocentric vision is not that Logos condescends to incarnate itself, but that Flesh becomes Word.
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
#89. I do not know why the mind chooses these small things to break itself on.
Chris Cleave
#90. Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
Charles Lindbergh
#91. It tells us that it is the Entrepreneurial Perspective that says it's not the commodity or the work itself that is important. What's important is the business: how it looks, how it acts, how it does what it is intended to do.
Anonymous
#92. She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others.
Edith Wharton
#93. Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth.
Jane Austen
#94. Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the United States is, should or could be the global gendarme.
Robert McNamara
#95. [on Thoreau:] For not a particle of respect had he to the opinions of any man or body of men, but homage solely to truth itself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#96. * The vermine is a small black-and-white relative of the lemming, found in the cold Hublandish regions. Its skin is rare and highly valued, especially by the vermine itself; the selfish little bastard will do anything rather than let go of it.
Terry Pratchett
#97. Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine ...
Edgar Allan Poe
#98. There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.
Mark Twain
#99. She understood very clearly why people go mad. Sometimes it is the only way to survive the unbearable when all other flight has been cut off. When the body cannot remove itself and emotions cannot be deadened, then the mind simply refuses to accept reality.
Anne Perry
#100. When instead of acting against a situation, you merge with it, the solution arises out of the situation itself.
Eckhart Tolle
