Itself Quotes
2191 Itself quotes by 1729 unique authors
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
— Margaret Drabble
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So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the…
— John Drinkwater
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The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
— Peter Drucker
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A song is anything that can walk by itself.
— Bob Dylan
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Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no…
— Terry Eagleton
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Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I…
— Katherine Dunham
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.
— Ariel Durant
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Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day.
— Marguerite Duras
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness…
— Marguerite Duras
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Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason…
— Terry Eagleton
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Adventure is worthwhile in itself.
— Amelia Earhart
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There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in…
— Charles Alexander Eastman
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Society is at odds with itself.
— Clint Eastwood
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There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the…
— Clint Eastwood
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Teaching prejudice to a child is itself a form of bullying. You've got to be taught to hate.
— Roger Ebert
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On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as…
— Roger Ebert
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There exists only the present instant... a Now which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any tomorrow, but only…
— Meister Eckhart
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
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For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our…
— George Eliot
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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is…
— Havelock Ellis
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
— Havelock Ellis
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
— Havelock Ellis
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