What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
If you look over the years, the styles have changed – the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it’s really the same.
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!
The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
A country that cannot feed itself cannot have self-pride, and in the mid-’60s 20 percent of all the wheat produced in America came into India. We were agriculturally a basket case. And 15 years later, 20 years later, we have become an agricultural power. This is the famous Green Revolution.
Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Never explain what you do. It speaks for itself. You only muddle it by talking about it.
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and ‘play the game,’ and these are the best of training for any game of life.
Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people’s enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.
We are one people; we are only family. And when we finally accept these truths, then we will be able to fulfill Dr. King’s dream to build a beloved community, a nation, and a world at peace with itself.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
Most people think when the world gets itself together, we’ll all be okay. I don’t see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don’t think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It’s how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment… all of that is expressed in culture.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
New technology is not good or evil in and of itself. It’s all about how people choose to use it.
Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we’ve struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We’ve made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
As an outside; don’t worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.
When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
The bone marrow transplant procedure itself can be dangerous, but it is swift, which makes it feel strangely anti-climactic.
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.
Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.
I like Copenhagen, just because my shows there have been really good for some reason. Not that I love the city itself, but every time I play there it feels amazing. Pretty nice people there.
In a way, the whole tangible universe itself is a vast residue, a skeleton of countless lives that have germinated in it and have left it, leaving behind them only a trifling, infinitesimal part of their riches.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
It is the nature of the self to manifest itself, In every atom slumbers the might of the self.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
People quit on jobs. They quit on marriages. They quit on school. There’s an immediacy of this day and age that doesn’t lend itself to being committed to anything.
Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
Time itself comes in drops.
It is right and necessary that all should have work to do which shall be worth doing and be of itself pleasant to do, and which should be done under such conditions as would make it neither over-wearisome nor over-anxious.
If a great opportunity opens itself up, I would love to be involved… or star in a movie.
The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself.
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression.
I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor… but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
With manga, in my art style, I don’t do much in the way of techniques to create depth. But even though I don’t do depth techniques through my art, I am conscious of depth itself.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
