Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself.

Time is the Universe, Expressing itself as Time.

One single vision fills all minds: that of our independence endangered. One single duty imposes itself upon our wills: the duty of stubborn resistance.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

Time burnt the sun. It burnt itself.

Been trading up recently? You have, haven’t you? You’ll be squawking that you’re too rational, too busy and too socially concerned for any of that. But go through the fridge – come to think of...

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Valentine’s Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.

Certainly the format of ghostbusting lends itself to a videogame beautifully.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

I’ve not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you’re recording, and how you live while you’re there is what appeals to me.

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.