There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.

Nothing’ itself is the biggest black hole of the universe.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

The fleet being thus more inclosed will more readily observe the signals, and with greater facility form itself into the line of battle a circumstance which should be kept in view in every order of...

Russia itself is an extremely complex country, and sometimes I feel like all of that comes back to haunt me. I can see why so many Russian writers were so tortured.

I don’t think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

When it comes to films, people often don’t differentiate between the message of a bad central character and the message of the film itself. They are two separate things.

It obviously matters who gets to be president. And it’s perfectly valid for us media types to advocate for the candidate we think is more qualified, based on our reporting. But the hype has gotten...

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

London clubland divides itself between the St James’s refuge for toffs, and the Conquest of Cool, for the arts and media.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

My face lends itself to austere characters, and unless they’re two-dimensional, I will do them. Any actor will tell you that an interesting villain is much more interesting to play.

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently.

The 1910 Edison film of ‘Frankenstein’ was itself a dead thing revived by technology.

Any country that steps into the same trench as the Jews has only itself to blame.

It isn’t often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

It is an established principle of jurisprudence in all civilized nations that the sovereign cannot be sued in its own courts, or in any other, without its consent and permission; but it may, if it...

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an...

The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I’m concerned it can have it.

Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Labor, in itself, is neither elevating or otherwise. It is the laborer’s privilege to ennoble his work by the aim with which he undertakes it, and by the enthusiasm and faithfulness he puts into it.

Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

Use of the word; the word itself was not printed.

A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.

In the arts the way in which an idea is rendered, and the manner in which it is expressed, is much more important than the idea itself.

Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it’s more an awkwardness.

God has made Canada one of those nations which cannot be conquered and cannot be destroyed, except by itself.

We always have hoped that American diplomacy deploys itself in dialogue and persuasion rather than by ultimatums. That is the path we want in international relations.

The battle to find a workplace that’s wheelchair accessible is a feat in itself, let alone an employer who’s going to be cool about employing someone with a disability in a job you actually want...

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

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

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It’s like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) – the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in...

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can’t unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for...

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

Fascism is itself less ‘ideological’, in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

Most projects that I’ve done are really not about the project. They’re about what’s going on inside and around, that journey that we’re all on, and what I can do to help that journey further...

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

I have my dream job! As a young person training as an actor, walking on the WB studio lot is a dream in itself.

The enemy of time is time itself.

An empire that extends itself selectively is just being prudent about its own limitations. A republic that supports democratization selectively is another matter.