Quotes of: Itself Keyword

mass indoctrination of uneducated young men with such ideas is in itself a lethal danger to society and to international order.

The Enemy

When we are dealing with human beings, no truth has reality by itself; it is always dependent upon the reality of the immediate relationship.

Existence

Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.

Fahrenheit 451

Time is forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures and in one of them I am your enemy.

Ficciones

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

Four Ways to Forgiveness

... privilege was obligation; command was service; power, the gift itself, entailed a heavy loss of freedom.

Gifts

Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself. ("The Moon Slave")

Ghostly By Gaslight

Not only it is annoying, it is distracting from life itself. ~on what TV is.

The Hodgepodge of Poetized Morsels Parts 1 Through 5

In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

By His Bootstraps

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy

Heart of Darkness

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itselfe. -DONNE

Awakenings

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction

War created bizarre allies, while peace itself could be divisive.

Blood Hunt

All societies that maintain armies maintain the belief that some things are more valuable than life itself.

Banal Nationalism

I’m learning love does not express itself the way I thought it would.

Because I Love You

There's no need to clarify my finger snap," said Magnus. "The implication was clear in the snap itself.

City of Ashes

Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.

Katherine Mansfield

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life.

Lascelles Abercrombie

The attitude of the people proves that not only do we want to, but that we can succeed in pulling our country out of the difficult position it finds itself in. The banking system of our country will survive and grow.

Nicos Anastasiades

I think the Mother is gradually revealing itself to me and taking over. But it is not the Mother alone. It is the Mother and the Father, the male and the female, sort of gradually having their marriage.

Bede Griffiths