Itself Quotes
2191 quotes by 1731 authors
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Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within…
— Paul Auster
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My reputation for writing quickly and effortlessly notwithstanding, I am strongly in favor of intelligent, even fastidious revision, which is, or certainly should be, an…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you…
— John Berger
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Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
— John Berger
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Boycott is not a principle. When it becomes one, it itself risks becoming exclusive and racist. No boycott, in our sense of the term, should…
— John Berger
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However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can…
— Unknown Author
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The content and thematic materials of dance is, of itself, like boxing. You play tennis and baseball. But boxing is not a sport you play:…
— Twyla Tharp
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Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
— Italo Calvino
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The Gaelic language itself depends very much on ear and rhythm, and when those who are thinking in Gaelic speak in English, they get the…
— Lady Gregory
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Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a…
— George Edward Woodberry
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The United States is a world unto itself. We have mountains, we have deserts, we have a river that equals the Yangtze River, that equals…
— Paul Theroux
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I am one year older than Nigeria at 51. In a human life, 51 might be old. But it is very young for a nation.…
— Ben Okri
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The body is a great machine, and it knows how to take care of itself. I think more often than not the things we do…
— Julia Roberts
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To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He…
— Delmore Schwartz
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When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hang-ups.
— John Coltrane
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Justice is the object of government, and those who support the government, must be agreed as to the justice to be executed by it, or…
— Lysander Spooner
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The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
— Vladimir Putin
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At last, Russia has returned to the world arena as a strong state - a country that others heed and that can stand up for…
— Vladimir Putin
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Tamils all over the world have a sense of belonging to the world itself, but our ancient roots come from India. I would like to…
— M.I.A.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should…
— Camille Paglia
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