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Brexit was a fantastic example of a nation shooting itself full in the face.
Hugh Grant
Face
Example
Nation
Itself
Shooting
Fantastic
Full
Brexit
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
Isaac Asimov
Government
Library
Think
Society
Way
Destroy
About
More
Only
Read
Itself
American
Being
Which
Cut
American Society
Found
Funds
To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but the habit of reflecting upon what you have read is equally essential as than of reading itself, to give it all the efficacy of which it is susceptible.
John Quincy Adams
Time
You
Bible
Reading
Scarcely
Give
Habit
Fail
Employment
Read
Equally
Occupation
Itself
Reflecting
Efficacy
Than
Susceptible
Essential
Being
Which
Useful
My countrymen, I have given proofs that I am one most anxious for liberties for our country, and I am still desirous of them. But I place as a prior condition the education of the people, that by means of instruction and industry our country may have an individuality of its own and make itself worthy of these liberties.
Jose Rizal
Education
People
Country
Own
Our
Liberties
Worthy
Given
Individuality
Countrymen
Most
Instruction
Make
Industry
Prior
Am
Still
Condition
Itself
Anxious
May
Place
Them
Means
What is Americanization? It manifests itself, in a superficial way, when the immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners and the customs generally prevailing here. Far more important is the manifestation presented when he substitutes for his mother tongue the English language as the common medium of speech.
Louis D. Brandeis
Mother
Language
Important
Clothes
Manners
Medium
Way
Immigrant
Superficial
Adopt
Prevailing
More
Generally
He
Mother Tongue
His
Itself
Common
Substitutes
Manifestation
Customs
Far
English
English Language
Here
Tongue
Presented
Speech
Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
Matthew Underwood
Life
Love
Family
Passion
Path
Confusion
Our
Take
Make
How
Dice
Friends
Itself
Family And Friends
Roll
Romance
Turns
Full
Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Nature
Space
Society
Other
Rival
Unto
Force
Itself
Space Exploration
Exploration
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Future
Long
Before
Itself
Order
Transform
Happens
Us
Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.
Simone de Beauvoir
Life
Living
Only
Both
Maintain
Occupied
Does
Surpassing
Perpetuating
Itself
Dying
Then
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder
Love
Love Is
Value
Own
Energy
Exists
Itself
Which
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
William Blake
Love
Care
Hell
Despair
Please
Ease
Hath
Gives
Another
Builds
Nor
Itself
Any
Heaven
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Life
You
Worth
Living
Enough
Worth Living
Only
Had
Had Enough
Question
End
Itself
Whether
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story.
Agatha Christie
City
Detective
Detective Story
New
Itself
York
New York
New York City
Story
Ridiculous
Set
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
Alexis Carrel
Life
Quality
Important
More
Quality Of Life
Itself
Than
Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
Aneurin Bevan
Future
Society
Born
New
New Order
Itself
Refusing
Order
Fascism
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
Work
Hope
Architecture
Logical
Will
Long
Big
Gone
Living
Aim
Aim High
Once
High
Insistence
Recorded
Remembering
Noble
Make
Diagram
Itself
Die
After
Plans
Asserting
Thing
Living Thing
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
Derek Walcott
Property
Language
Imagination
Nobody
Itself
Special
English
English Language
The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be.
George Santayana
World
Pretending
Every
Caricature
Perpetual
Itself
Contradiction
Mockery
Moment
Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.
Gustave Flaubert
Nature
Stupidity
Nothing
Something
Attacks
Unshakable
Without
Itself
Breaking
Against
Granite
Hard
Resistant
My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.
Huey Newton
Death
Fear
Without
Itself
Meaning
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
James Baldwin
Life
Respect
Think
Force
Does
Making
Itself
Effort
Bread
Loving
Sensual
Present
Rejoice
Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy
Socialism
End
Itself
Means
Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.
Jonah Goldberg
Government
You
Man
Political
Hero
Country
Our
Papers
About
Faction
Divided
Disagreement
Federalist
Checks
Checks And Balances
Read
Balances
Tradition
Mob
Up
Itself
American
Pitting
Against
Who
Stands
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.
Jose Rizal
Good
Opportunity
Will
Lost
Once
Good Opportunity
Only
Well
Does
Itself
Die
Dies
Again
Present
A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.
Joseph Pulitzer
Time
People
Will
Cynical
Press
Mercenary
Itself
Produce
Base
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.
Marcus Aurelius
Beautiful
Better
Made
Beauty
Nothing
Way
Worse
Part
Beyond
Praise
Itself
Any
Anything
Ask
Derives
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