Quotes of: History-repeats-itself Keyword

Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people.

Kenneth Lonergan

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Life itself is offensive and certainly does not apologize - in fact, it hurts considerably and, as we all know, is often very rude and troublesome, just as nature or art can be.

Michael Leunig

I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.

Marilyn Manson

Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

Sonny Perdue

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.

1Q84

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness

The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity

The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide.

The Art of Dying

If you get enough people believing one thing, it's like reality bends itself to allow that to exist.

Artificial Gods

Psychoanalytic insight, Miller seems to suggest, is itself a pathological symptom.

Are You My Mother?

Madness doesn’t get off wearing gloves. It needs to feel skin on skin, smell the blood and shit as it brings itself off.

Atlas

Love is that which gives of itself, not because anyone needs it or deserves it, but because that is what love does.

I AM - The Key to Manifesting

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.

The Infernals

And it was like I , and that certainty planted itself in my belly like a warm secret.

If I Stay

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

Killosophy

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

Killosophy

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

Killosophy

The church that weds itself to modernity is already a widow within postmodernity.

Requiem: A Lament in Three Movements

Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Selected Essays, 1778-1830

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives