I don’t know whether a poem has be there to help to develop something. I think it’s there for itself, for what the reader finds in it.

From the early 1960s to the mid-1980s – the era of military dictatorship when South Korea was rebuilding itself from a postwar economic basket case to a humming, modern nation – military schools were the...

A big part of fixing AOL is getting AOL to believe in itself.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

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