The state is out of control, the state is on a spending binge, the state has to stop putting itself in a hole that's getting deeper and deeper and deeper.
Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
I'm not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.
The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.
Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.
Love gives itself; it is not bought.
We cannot let Brussels put itself above the law.
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
Boko Haram, by itself, has destroyed large areas in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
Stated clearly enough, an idea may cancel itself out.
Capitalism cannot reform itself; it is doomed to self-destruction.
There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Public decision-making does not lend itself to certitude.
Rather than allow themselves to be separated from the love of Christ, they submitted cheerfully to every privation, to contumely and disgrace, and to death itself.
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.
The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable with everyday dread itself.
The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.
