Itself Quotes

2191 Itself quotes by 1729 unique authors

Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that. — Damon Albarn
The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the… — George Grosz
Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science. — Edward Sapir
As precious as life itself is our heritage of individual freedom, for man's free agency is a God-given gift. — David O. McKay
The principal cause of war is war itself. — C. Wright Mills
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. — Jean Toomer
Business is in itself a power. — Garet Garrett
Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits. — Dale Dauten
Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out. — Rosser Reeves
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater. — Robertson Davies
He who has loved and who betrays love does harm not only to the image of the past, but to the past itself. — Theodor Adorno
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to… — Origen
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I am against the notion of style in itself — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique,… — Georg Baselitz
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having… — John Jay Hooker
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the… — Learned Hand
Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me. — Richard Russo
The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an… — David Tudor
If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself. — John Prescott
It's important to show that, while authorizing the demonstrations and promoting diversity of opinion, the Republic can't allow itself to be undermined from within. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of… — Kenichi Fukui
I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society. — Alexis Korner
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure… — Esa-Pekka Salonen
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction. — Talcott Parsons

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