Itself Quotes

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Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. — Nathalie Sarraute
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. — Jean-Paul Sartre
A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could… — Vidal Sassoon
Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to… — Dan Savage
At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since. — Marilyn vos Savant
Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself. — Marilyn vos Savant
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair. — Friedrich Schiller
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle… — Friedrich Schiller
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. — Eric Schmidt
Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But… — Liev Schreiber
An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because… — E F Schumacher
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions… — Joseph A. Schumpeter
Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not… — Albert Schweitzer
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live… — Albert Schweitzer
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the… — David Sedaris
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think… — Will Self

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