Quotes of: Itself Keyword

Thinking about such things soothed the creature as it dug at the base of a tall oak tree, deep into the ground, covering itself with dirt and leaves and moss; hiding, healing, waiting.

Small Things

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani: 58 Movements for Eternal Youth from Ancient Tibet

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Sever

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

The Shadow of the Wind

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The Shadow of the Wind

Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The Shadow of the Wind

In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going.

A Tale of Two Cities

Scientist are human. Unraveling the knots of Nature's mysteries is a reward in itself; but even so, scientists like to hear the applause of the audience

The Tyrannosaurus Prescription and 100 Other Essays

Wisdom Sufian said: 'The wisdom which is invisible but which sustains is a hundred times better than the appearance of wisdom, for that has itself to be sustained.

Thinkers of the East

What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.

Till We Have Faces

For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

Orlando

it is a higher glory... to stay war itself with a word, than to slay men with the sword, and to procure or maintain peace by peace, not by war.

The Political Writings of St. Augustine

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise.

Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life

Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.

Pleasure

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

On the rare occasions on which a movie was shown, there was as much suspense in the audience over whether the electricity would hold out to the end of the film as there was in the film itself.

The Path to Power

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

The Prophet

But the point is this Monsieur...the reason why Madame complains of you is not because of the immorality in itself; but because, so she tells me, you make immorality delicious.

The Parasites

Morgan was looking at the food in front of her suspiciously, as if it intended to merely reside for a bit inside her, then liberate itself at a most inconvenient time.

Princess of the Sword