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History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.Anthony T. Hincks
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Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.James C. Dobson
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.Aldous Huxley
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In order to achieve stable success, you must be focused on God and not on success itselfSunday Adelaja
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The illusion is time itself.Anthony T. Hincks
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Nothing belongs to itself anymore. These trees are yours because you once looked at them. These streets are yours because you once traversed them. These coffee shops and bookshops, these cafés and bars, their sole owner is you. They gave themselves so willingly, surrendering to your perfume. You sang with the birds and they stopped to listen to you. You smiled at the sheepish stars and they fell into your hair. The sun and moon, the sea and mountain, they have all left from heartbreak. Nothing belongs to itself anymore. You once spoke to Him, and then God became yours. He sits with us in darkness now to plot how to make you ours.” K.K.Kamand Kojouri
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Rise of Science DenialismThe problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, where someone like Donald Trump was allowed to rise to the level of a serious presidential candidate in 2016) have descended to such levels of ignorance that science itself is dismissed by leaders, political and religious as ‘an agenda’, and frightening numbers of people cling to ignorance and superstition because it suits their conservative anti-human rights views and objectives.Christina Engela
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Dr. Richard Selzer is a surgeon and a favorite author of mine. He writes the most beautiful and compassionate descriptions of his patients and the human dramas they confront. In his book Letters to a Young Doctor, he said that most young people seem to be protected for a time by an imaginary membrane that shields them from horror. They walk in it every day but are hardly aware of its presence. As the immune system protects the human body from the unseen threat of harmful bacteria, so this mythical membrane guards them from life-threatening situations. Not every young person has this protection, of course, because children do die of cancer, congenital heart problems, and other disorders. But most of them are shielded–and don’t realize it. Then, as years roll by, one day it happens. Without warning, the membrane tears, and horror seeps into a person’s life or into the life of a loved one. It is at this moment that an unexpected theological crisis presents itself.James C. Dobson
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Gray.The overcast skies had the colour of deadened stones, and seemed closer than usually, as though they were phlegmatically observing my every movement with their apathetic emptily blue-less eyes; each tiny drop of hazy rain drifting around resembled transparent molten steel, the pavement looked like it was about to burst into disconsolate tears, even the air itself was gray, so ultimate and ubiquitous that colour was everywhere around me. Gray..Simona Panova
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Live in the now and the how will take care of itself.A.D. Posey
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The survivor spoke to us though, or tried to. Mumbling through that matted brown beard of his, pale as death itself. I can’t say now if it was weakness from his wounds or what it was — but we struggled to understand him. In fact we got nothing intelligible from him at all then. He seemed afraid, like any dying man probably would be, but he did seem more terrified than any dying man I’ve seen before — and I’ve seen a few in my time. Let me tell you, Corsair or not, he grabbed whatever hand would hold his, and clenched it so tight his knuckles turned white! He kept fading out as we carried him on the stretcher board the medics brought with them. Looking back, I think he tried to warn us, poor bastard. He tried to tell us to leave him behind and go, but we wouldn’t listen. We thought we were better than the Corsairs, remember? We thought we would be all moral and upright and try to help him. ‘Don’t say I didn’t warn you.’ were the last words he said before losing consciousness. At least, those that we could make out. At the end of it all, he was right — as it turned out, we couldn’t even help ourselves.Christina Engela
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The emphasis of the churches were not in how much work or home keeping is done in the four walls of the church itself, they rather told the Protestants to go prove their love to God at their work places through the quality of their worksSunday Adelaja
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We are in the energy dictatorship that calls itself the United States of America.Steven Magee
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We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.Sigmund Freud
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Simplicity within itself is just another complication.Anthony T. Hincks
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As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time.Sunday Adelaja
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As important as increase is, it is not an end in itselfSunday Adelaja
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All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage.Thorstein Veblen
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Business is in itself a power.Garet Garrett
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An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.Charles De Montesquieu
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It's not about the failure, it's about learning from the failures. Failure itself cannot be celebrated.Satya Nadella
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.Winston Churchill
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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.Henry J. Kaiser
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.Jack London
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What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.Werner Heisenberg
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Experience by itself is not science.Edmund Husserl
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I'd rather let the music speak for itself.Serj Tankian
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Time itself comes in drops.William James
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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.Gertrude Stein
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.Walter Pater
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We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.Pat Paulsen
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.Abraham Maslow
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The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.Werner Herzog
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.Francis Bacon
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Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.Rod Serling
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Technology feeds on itself. Technology makes more technology possible.Alvin Toffler
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Education is not preparation for life education is life itself.John Dewey
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.Abraham Maslow
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Character develops itself in the stream of life.Unknown
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Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.Karen Horney
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Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.Edward Hirsch
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Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.Georges Braque
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All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.Kurt Vonnegut