When ye are prepared for a thing, the opportunity to use it presents itself.
Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
The well of true wit is truth itself.
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
Every society needs to examine itself in relation to other societies.
Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.
Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.
I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.
I feel like - like Netflix is great if you've got a project ready to launch itself into the world rapidly.
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.
For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.
There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.
We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.
I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.
Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.
When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
The North understand it better - they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits - surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.
This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.
If history is going to repeat itself I should think we can expect the same thing again.
What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way.
Power tends to protect itself merely to maintain its own status and control. Principle gives up power for the sake of creating the best public policy.
I'm dead serious about my craft and just really serious about making music in itself. I take pride in making songs and albums where no two songs sound alike. That's the challenge and that's what it's all about, to keep it original and fresh and funky.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
Where humanity is going to find itself in, say, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years would be very difficult to predict, I think. There are moments, of course, when you think that it's going from bad to worse, but there are other moments when you think that human efforts are really flowering into something really fantastic.
