Itself Quotes
2191 quotes by 1729 authors
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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.
— Peter Ustinov
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Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to…
— Gore Vidal
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We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks.…
— Gore Vidal
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has…
— George Washington
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The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
— Derek Walcott
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In an effort to eliminate the possibility of any rival growing up, some monopolists would sacrifice democracy itself.
— Henry A. Wallace
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Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United…
— Henry A. Wallace
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Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due.…
— Horace Walpole
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I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque…
— Alan Watts
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The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself…
— Evelyn Waugh
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in…
— John Wayne
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Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.
— Lil Wayne
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All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems…
— Max Weber
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The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it…
— Simone Weil
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
— Simone Weil
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It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
— Rebecca West
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Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
— Rebecca West
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It's true the punk fashion itself was iconographic: rips and dirt, safety pins, zips, slogans, and hairstyles. These motifs were so iconic in themselves -…
— Vivienne Westwood
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