Quotes of: Itself Keyword

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

Genesis

A tree forms itself in answer to its place and the light. Explain it how you will, the only thing explainable will be your explanation.” Sabbaths 1999 IV

Given

Camhanach, it is a bargain as old as the world itself." He chuckled. "Women want protection...men want a willing lass to warm their bed.

His Stolen Bride

Pursue not the outer entanglements; Dwell not in the inner void; Be serene in the oneness of things; And dualism vanishes by itself.

Hsin-Hsin Ming: Verses on the Faith-Mind

Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.

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With the threat of them being potential spies or saboteurs, nobody will argue against our actions, and history itself will vindicate us.

The Black Banner

Sex doesn't sell anything other than itself

Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy and the New Science of Desire

We just have to remind ourselves that the source of any happiness is mind itself.

BUDA Y EL AMOR, EL

Our natures are, indeed, elusively insubstantial-notoriously less stable and less inherent than the nature of other things. And insofar as this is the case, sincerity itself is bullshit.

On Bullshit

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself.

Beauty

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water.

Beautiful Winter

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Baltasar Gracian

In this age when people expect to get their music for free, we have to work out how we can protect the rights of creative artists so they are compensated fairly and that the record business itself remains sound and healthy.

Clive Davis

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

John Perry Barlow

All research in the cultural sciences in an age of specialization, once it is oriented towards a given subject matter through particular settings of problems and has established its methodological principles, will consider the analysis of the data as...

Max Weber

With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.

Rich Cohen

I think that in itself is kind of an amazing achievement to be able to say that your full-time career is in any creative arts, let alone a show that has kept people interested for coming on four seasons and hopefully more.

Anna Paquin

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Sri Aurobindo