And therefore we must seek dialogue in this networked world. We must ask which voice was actually attempting to make itself heard and saw no other possibility of gaining a hearing. To that extent, for a while this also represented a forced opening of a cosmopolitan view.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Sometimes things feel hopeless. Not always within my own life - but looking outward, it seems like rough times lie ahead of us. The world seems to be kind of caving in on itself in a lot of ways. But I try to look on the bright side.
He who has seen everything empty itself is close to knowing what everything is filled with.
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a viewer, there is no story.
The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
Fact is, awards shows were never really about recognizing achievement. They were a publicity ploy cooked up in the late 1920s by MGM topper Louie Mayer and his newly formed Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences which was itself, back in the day, nothing but a front organization to discourage unionizing.
There is no degree of human suffering which in and of itself is going to bring about change. Only organisation can change things.
A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
The Jewish tradition presents itself as the greatest revelation of God's truth that can be known in the world. That is why we call ourselves 'the chosen people.' It is not that we choose ourselves. It means that we have been elected by God and given the Torah.
I think, as a woman in action in the business, you would be stupid not to express interest. Any female action role that presents itself as an opportunity I would throw myself at!
'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in.
Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete bodies in the strata, tells us either that the layer itself which carries them was in earlier times dry land or that dry land was at least formed in the immediate area.
Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
Ideally, I like to integrate the human issues into the suspense story itself.
I have always thought that Israel, as an independent and sovereign nation, had a right to defend itself.
For me, it is clear that when it comes to the need of Israel to defend itself, the role of the United States of America is crucial.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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.
Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.
Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.
