“The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.”
― Aaron Allston
“My success rate speaks for itself.”
― Abby Lee Miller
“What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Sometimes history repeats itself. And sometimes it doesn’t.”
― Adam Curtis
“Belgium is modernizing itself and it gives me joy.”
― Albert II of Belgium
“Memory narrativises itself.”
― Aleksandar Hemon
“A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.”
― Alex Comfort
“Nothing comes sailing by itself.”
― Alexander Dale Oen
“Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.”
― Alicia Garza
“Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”
― Amelia Earhart
“The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.”
― Anish Kapoor
“The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.”
― Anthony Fauci
“Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.”
― Baruch Spinoza
“Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.”
― Benjamin Hoff
“Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.”
― Benjamin Rush
“Order doesn’t come by itself.”
― Benoit Mandelbrot
“I’d say my greatest fear is fear itself.”
― Beth Orton
“Okay, the experience itself was a pleasant experience.”
― Betty Hill
“AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.”
― Bill Gates
“My track record speaks for itself.”
― Billy Butler
“The blues is life itself.”
― Billy Gibbons
“History has repeated itself many times througout the ages.”
― Billy Sheehan
“A song is anything that can walk by itself.”
― Bob Dylan
“The principal cause of war is war itself.”
― C. Wright Mills
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
― Calvin Coolidge
“My record speaks for itself.”
― Canelo Alvarez
“To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.”
― Cecil Taylor
“I’m not so keen on letting my car drive itself.”
― Chadwick Boseman
“The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.”
― Charles Ives
“The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.”
― Charlie Sykes
“Acting should be an end in itself.”
― Chris Sarandon
“As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.”
― Christoph Waltz
“Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
― Citium Zeno
“History repeats itself, and that’s one of the things that’s wrong with history.”
― Clarence Darrow
“The right name is an advertisement in itself.”
― Claude C. Hopkins
“Society is at odds with itself.”
― Clint Eastwood
“Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.”
― Dan Aykroyd
“Every note is a lifetime for itself.”
― Daniel Barenboim
“There is a danger in democracy itself.”
― Danny Kaye
“Online is amazing, but it, in itself, is not a solution.”
― David Droga
“The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.”
― Deepak Chopra
“The PRI portrays itself as the force of the center, of stability.”
― Denise Dresser
“What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?”
― Djuna Barnes
“No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually.”
― Dorothea Lange
“This sentence contradicts itself – no actually it doesn’t.”
― Douglas Hofstadter
“Experience by itself is not science.”
― Edmund Husserl
“Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.”
― Eldridge Cleaver
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”
― Emil Cioran
“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
― Emil Cioran
“Popularity isn’t an objective in itself. I’m not in this game.”
― Emmanuel Macron
“Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.”
― Eric Hoffer
“Revolution is not a goal in itself.”
― Ernest Mandel
“Valuing the road over the goal was a Taoist goal in itself.”
― Evan Osnos
“Alaska itself is an unusual state.”
― Fareed Zakaria
“Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.”
― Frances Wright
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.”
― Francis Marion Crawford
“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”
― Francois Truffaut
“The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.”
― Frans Lanting
“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
― Friedrich Durrenmatt
“Business is in itself a power.”
― Garet Garrett
“My brain subconsciously limits itself to panel compositions that my hand can actually draw.”
― Gene Luen Yang
“A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One.”
― Georg Cantor
“The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.”
― George Mason
“The unfed mind devours itself.”
― Gore Vidal
“I am against the notion of style in itself.”
― Guillermo Cabrera Infante
“There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.”
― Hannah Arendt
“My record speaks for itself.”
― Harry Redknapp
“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.”
― Havelock Ellis
“The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.”
― Hendrik Poinar
“In reality, the past is preserved by itself automatically.”
― Henri Bergson
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
― Henry J. Kaiser
“Love gives itself; it is not bought.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.”
― Henry Ward Beecher
“That’s the biggest problem, is the tax code itself.”
― Herman Cain
“Israel has a right to defend itself.”
― Hillary Clinton
“Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.”
― J. K. Rowling
“Coffee is a language in itself.”
― Jackie Chan
“The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.”
― James Mark Baldwin
“I am interested in the physicality of light itself.”
― James Turrell
“Light itself is a revelation.”
― James Turrell
“Life doesn’t use detergent to clean itself.”
― Janine Benyus
“Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.”
― Jawaharlal Nehru
“Life itself is exponential.”
― Jeff Rich
“Life itself is so surprising, a predictable story is unsatisfying.”
― Jennifer Egan
“All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.”
― Jeremy Bentham
“Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.”
― Jim Leach
“Life itself is inspiration.”
― Jim Starlin
“Calgary prides itself on being a wrestling town.”
― Jinder Mahal
“Character develops itself in the stream of life.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
― John Dewey
“Night was running ahead of itself.”
― Jorge Amado
“Life itself is a quotation.”
― Jorge Luis Borges
“Venice is eternity itself.”
― Joseph Brodsky
“Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.”
― Joseph Wood Krutch
“Life itself is the proper binge.”
― Julia Child
“Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.”
― Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.”
― Khalil Gibran
“My husband’s character speaks for itself.”
― Kyle Richards
“Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.”
― Leon Panetta
“The world itself is already a great textbook.”
― Ma Yansong
“Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.”
― Marilyn vos Savant
“Israel is not a European country and doesn’t consider itself as such.”
― Marine Le Pen
“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
― Martin Heidegger
“Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.”
― Mason Cooley
“It’s an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.”
― Megan Fox
“Articulateness is not the only way that intelligence manifests itself.”
― Michelle Dean
“The first robot in Neom will be Neom itself.”
― Mohammad bin Salman
“An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.”
― Montesquieu
“Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.”
― Mortimer Adler
“I’m not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.”
― Nick Foles
“Nature repeats itself, but it never starts from the beginning.”
― Nicolas Roeg
“A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.”
― Niels Bohr
“Writing is the beast unto itself.”
― Omar Epps
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself… and, of course, the boogieman.”
― Pat Paulsen
“I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession.”
― Patrick deWitt
“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
― Pearl S. Buck
“Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.”
― Pete Hoekstra
“The phenomenon of ‘Transformers’ itself is mind-shaking, you know?”
― Peter Cullen
“Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself.”
― Phil Crosby
“Reality, by itself, becomes a story by Philip K. Dick.”
― Philip K. Dick
“When the mind is thinking it is talking to itself.”
― Plato
“I let my game speak for itself.”
― Rajon Rondo
“Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.”
― Rebecca Miller
“Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.”
― Rick Moody
“Evil will destroy itself.”
― Rob Gronkowski
“Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
“The Titanic will protect itself.”
― Robert Ballard
“Seeing is in itself a movement.”
― Robert Delaunay
“If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.”
― Robert Delaunay
“We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.”
― Robert Jackson
“Divorce in and of itself, and with children, is devastating.”
― Robin Wright
“No nation ever taxed itself into prosperity.”
― Rush Limbaugh
“I’d rather let the music speak for itself.”
― Serj Tankian
“Cohabitation itself doesn’t cause ineffective parenting.”
― Stephanie Coontz
“Surya namaskar, in itself, is a combination of 12 asanas.”
― Sushma Swaraj
“Widow. The word consumes itself.”
― Sylvia Plath
“Custom adapts itself to expediency.”
― Tacitus
“The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.”
― Theodor W. Adorno
“Speech is civilization itself.”
― Thomas Mann
“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
― Thomas Paine
“Monetary policy itself cannot sensibly be directed at reducing imbalances.”
― Timothy Geithner
“The primary plan is to let the music speak for itself.”
― Troy Carter
“We don’t need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.”
― Twyla Tharp
“Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.”
― Ulrich Beck
“And the terror itself is an example of the world’s uncontrollability.”
― Ulrich Beck
“Writing has to support itself.”
― V. S. Naipaul
“A cat only has itself.”
― V. S. Naipaul
“There’s an amazing movie called ‘Los Angeles Plays Itself.’”
― Valerie Faris
“Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.”
― Vanna Bonta
“Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.”
― Vicente Fox
“The history of Pantera speaks for itself.”
― Vinnie Paul
“Fury itself supplies arms.”
― Virgil
“Perfection itself is imperfection.”
― Vladimir Horowitz
“Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.”
― W. E. B. Du Bois
“Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.”
― Walter Pater
“Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.”
― William Godwin
“Time itself comes in drops.”
― William James
“When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.”
― William James
“Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.”
― William Shakespeare
“Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.”
― Youssou N’Dour
“I try to let my game speak for itself.”
― Zach LaVine
“Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.”
― Zachary Levi
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