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had anyone ever been as homeless as she, not just out of house but out of time itself? - — Stephen King

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets. — Colin Thubron

Physics is unable to stand on its own feet, but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself, whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal
but the ultimate condition of life. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

That's all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Machines, he said, are an effect of art, which is nature's ape, and they reproduce not its forms but the operation itself. — Umberto Eco

In the end, man is an event which cannot judge itself, but, for better or worse, is left to the judgment of others — Jung

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. — Edward Coke

But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself. — Melanie Bennett

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You ask, 'How to live my life?' But with the question you are suffocating life itself, for life is spontaneity. — Mooji

Information can compel us to want to take action, but information, by itself, is often not enough to motivate action or change. — Sharon Weil

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government. — Karl Kautsky

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself. — Simone De Beauvoir

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work. — Adam Clayton

Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. — Herman Koch

The world is neither fair nor right, but it has a way of balancing itself. — V.E Schwab

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The town itself is disagreeable; but then, all around, you find an inexpressible beauty of nature. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself. — Pope Francis

Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend. — P.L. Travers

Dreamland is a book, but it's my song in book form. It's translated itself into a different medium. — Mary Chapin Carpenter

Each natural agent works but to this end,- To render that it works on like itself. — George Chapman

Secrecy can spring from the best motives; but as it grows it begins to exist only for itself, only for its own sake, only to cover its own abuses. — Christopher Dodd

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously. — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

So such is life that it writes itself, trying to right itself, but there's nothing wrong with it. — Robert Pollard

Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. — Thomas Merton

Sorry, I'd love to hang out with you but this alcohol isn't going to drink itself into incoherence and liver failure — Tao Lin

I am not fond of Money but what i have to do in order to get it, i am fond of what i get in exchange for it's worth rather than money itself. — Sachin Kumar Puli

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something. — Henri Poincare

What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it. — P.D. James

Fashion may renew itself every six months but one thing remains the same: bouncers always wear black. — Paulo Coelho

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Philosophy must indeed recognize the possibility that the people rise to it, but must not lower itself to the people. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A great restaurant doesn't distinguish itself by how few mistakes it makes but by how well they handle those mistakes. — Danny Meyer

But the lie had already buried itself inside of Scarlett, as lies that children are told often do. — Stephanie Garber

She wished the days and months ahead of her would end. But the rest of her life continued to present itself, time ceaselessly proliferating. — Jhumpa Lahiri

The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry. — Halle Berry

Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. — Lascelles Abercrombie

Religion is to democracy as a bridle is to a horse. Religion moderates democracy because it appeals to an authority higher than democracy itself.5 But — Charles J. Chaput

I would like to write my life story, but it seems to write itself. — T.D. Mulhern

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself. — Philip Sidney

Commitment isn't measured by our belief itself or the depth of conviction regarding the belief, but by what we're willing to sacrifice to obtain it, — Scott Hildreth

The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself. — Gore Vidal

Everyone agrees in theory that we can't judge a new idea or point of view unless we enter into it and try it out, but the practice itself is rare. — Peter Elbow

Wealth is nothing in itself; it is not useful but when it departs from us. — Samuel Johnson

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you. — Nicolas Bouvier

You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object. — Frederick Franck

Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck. — Mason Cooley

Christ's suffering was redemptive not because suffering itself is redemptive, but because Christ himself is the Redeemer — Edmund P. Clowney

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood. — Sarah Ruhl

I thought film was more important than life itself for many years. But I was naive to the world until my first child was born in 1985. — Steven Spielberg

... not a fort at all, but a giant amulet, a city made from the magic in our hearts and the land itself. — A.A. Attanasio

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself. — Lorrie Moore

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate. — Frederick Lenz

America understands itself as God's handiwork, but the black body is the clearest evidence that America is the work of men. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives. — Subhas Chandra Bose

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. — E. M. Forster

Americans relate all effort, all work, and all of life itself to the dollar. Their talk is of nothing but dollars. — Nancy Mitford

The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest? — John Ashbery

Anger is not inappropriate in and of itself. But there — W. Robert Nay

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis

In a perfect world, I'd love to make 90-minute movies, but for me, a movie needs to be as long or short as it can sustain itself. — Paul Feig

Teachers need to be more inspirational. But it's also up to engineering to make itself more interesting. — Bruce Dickinson

The universe is a matrix. It's a doorway into itself. But that doorway remains invisible if you don't have enough energy flowing through you. — Frederick Lenz

Anger, in and of itself, is a good thing, within reason, but it will be your greatest enemy if you don't learn to control it! — Ali Vali

All of us know history repeats itself, but mighty few of us recognize the repetition until too late. — Kenneth Roberts

Need covers itself with love, but need ... need is never love. Always beware of the one who needs you. There is always a want behind a need, you see. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Pity us, yes, but we are brave, she thought, and wild, more life in us than we can bear, the fire infolding itself within us. — Marilynne Robinson

Even if I am but a pretender to wisdom, that in itself is philosophy. — Diogenes

A nontheological faith cannot explain itself, but a too theological faith loses contact with the reason for its existence. (154) — Harold O.J. Brown

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius

Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace — Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen. — Elie Wiesel

I see other black women imitate my style, which is no style at all, but just letting our hair be itself. They call it the Afro Look. — Miriam Makeba

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning. — Walter Raleigh

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. — Jimmy Carter

...but the power of spilled blood overwhelmed the good intentions of those who wanted to end the violence. — Jeffrey Goldberg

The suicide passes a judgment. Society does not care to examine the judgment, but in defense of itself as is, condemns the suicide. — Robert E. Neale

You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough. — Haruki Murakami

No book was ever written down by any but itself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave. — William Shakespeare

What are called viruses are always dead and incapable of any acts whatsoever. Dead matter may be acted upon but never acts of itself. — T.C. Fry

It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? — Patti Smith

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself. — Imogen Heap

Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge. — Simon Armitage

The mysterious does not spell itself out in capital letters, as many writers believe, but is always between, an interstice. — Julio Cortazar

You can be rich and not be famous. You can be famous and not be rich. But to be rich and famous is a special category all by itself. — Kimora Lee Simmons

Age is suspicious but is not itself often suspected. — Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth

What if all I ever wanted out of everything I have been chasing was not the thing itself but to be happy, to feel good?

Heidi C. — Rhonda Byrne

Thou art the thing itself: unaccommodated man is no more but such a poor bare, forked animal as thou art. — William Shakespeare

Eloquence; it requires the pleasant and the real; but the pleasant must itself be drawn from the true. — Blaise Pascal

A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending. — Martin Heidegger

He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. — Donna Tartt

'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest. — Joe Abercrombie