Quotes with itself

  • A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
  • When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
  • What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
  • More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from them.
  • To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
  • It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
  • Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''
  • Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.
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  • Frank Zappa A drug is neither moral nor immoral - it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace to society until a human being treats it as if consumption bestowed a temporary license to act like an asshole.
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Dwight L. Moody There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Henry David Thoreau This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Adolf Hitler All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Crime generally punishes itself.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Albert Pike Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Andrew Motion Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.
    Andrew Motion
     
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  • Oprah Winfrey Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
    Oprah Winfrey
    American TV host, Actress (1954 - )
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  • Ann Bancroft For me, the greatest obstacles are never on the ice itself. That's the area I excel in. That's where my passion is. I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats Good conversation unrolls itself like the spring or like the dawn.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Richard M. DeVos Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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  • John Donne No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Bo Bennett The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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