Quotes of: Itself Keyword

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

Antony Beevor

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

Alphonse de Lamartine

There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.

Susan George

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Julie Burchill

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Carol Burnett

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

David James Duncan

I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.

Andrew Johnson

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved... or star in a movie.

LeBron James

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself.

Mike Wilson

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

Padma Lakshmi

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

Bruce Greenwood

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think what makes a good action film is a story that gets you involved. Just action, by itself, is not going to work.

Jan de Bont

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Victor Cousin

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

Roberto Burle Marx

We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision.

Byron White

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Tupper

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

Daniel Keys Moran

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Plautus