Itself Quotes
2191 Itself quotes by 1729 unique authors
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There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
— Havelock Ellis
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.
— Michael Ende
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I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers…
— Brian Eno
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones…
— Brian Eno
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of…
— Arthur Erickson
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We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
— Arthur Erickson
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
— M.C. Escher
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If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But…
— Frederick William Faber
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Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
— Clifton Fadiman
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I think the 16 years that I spent in Green Bay speaks for itself.
— Brett Favre
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So much of a professional athlete's success depends upon not necessarily the play itself but how he deals with... always saying how you deal with…
— Brett Favre
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A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age…
— James Fenton
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Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself…
— James Fenton
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I think that American presidents, that position in itself, as well as American foreign policy, it has terrorism in it. CIA agents going to overthrow…
— Lupe Fiasco
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
— Carly Fiorina
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Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
— Gustave Flaubert
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There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are…
— Gerald R. Ford
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If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
— Henry Ford
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A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
— E. M. Forster
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I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself…
— Steve Hackett
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As I look back at the span of the Cold War in those early days, in the '50s, for example, there was a great deal…
— Alexander Haig
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