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

Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.

I always tell younger filmmakers, it’s not just about the acting or the art itself. It’s about how big of an audience watches your film.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.

I argue that one of the functions of a capitalist state is to defend capitalism from itself, to defend capitalism from the capitalists.

There’s so much going on in the world. There’s so much information being thrown at us – so many things are being sold to us, and we’re being told how we should appear and how...

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

I believe the body can take care of itself. It’s all about self-health. It’s about depending on our breathing.

My Roomba’s name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard...

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

A moment itself is today, yesterday and tomorrow.

The yeshiva where I studied considers itself modern Orthodox, not ultra-Orthodox. We followed a rigorous secular curriculum alongside traditional Talmud and Bible study.

The Titanic will protect itself.

Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of...

You’re defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

The farther reason looks the greater is the haze in which it loses itself.

Very quickly a painting is turned into a facsimile of itself when one becomes so familiar with with it that one recognizes it without looking at it.

Writing has to support itself.

As a songwriter, I do kind of look at ‘Santa Monica’ as a thing outside of itself, because it isn’t just my song. This is a song a lot of people tell me is a...

Still, as much as I wish Ballistic Kiss could be a better film, the recognition it gained from critics and at festivals speaks for itself.

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

But the key thing is that Iraq, while it’s got very large oil reserves, has marginalized itself as an oil exporter and these days its exports are only about one tenth that of neighboring Saudi...

There are strengths in Islamic tradition. Islam actually, as a monotheistic religion, which defined man as a responsible agent by itself, created the idea of the individual in the Middle East and saved it from...

It is not surprising that most Pakistanis do not support America’s bombardment of Afghanistan. The Afghans are neighbours on the brink of starvation and devastated by war. America has shown itself to be untrustworthy, a...

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man’s being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a ‘civilisation state.’ It was only when it was too weak...

It is vital that the World Bank Group continually challenges itself to refresh our development thinking. It is vital that a modernized multilateralism be open to new ideas.

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

For so long, the mainstays of cancer treatment have been chemotherapy and radiation. They’re toxic and primitive. We need to look at it in a rational way and say, how can we help the body...

I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it’s still marauding even though it’s no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly...

One of the aims of sexual union is procreation – the creation by reproduction of an image of itself, of the union.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language… but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

When I’m writing, I generally toy with an idea until it manifests itself – meaning a phrase or a tune comes into my head and eventually begins to jell. When something hits me, I write...

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly...

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

For me, I like to have explosive moments, whether it is a particular movement itself in the whole sequence. I like to have shocking moments; for audiences to feel, like, ‘Whoa!’ It’s always been my...

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

In song the same rule applies as in dramatic verse: the meaning must yield itself, or yield itself sufficiently to arouse the attention and interest, in real time.

There’s nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It’s sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.