#itself

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. ↗

— John Strachan

#cheerfully #christ #death #disgrace #every

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#cannot #itself #kindle #long #may

Man's inhumanity to man is as old as humanity itself. Some people just do evil things. Most do not. A billion people have seen 'Batman' movies over the past 20 years, and they have been entertained and inspired. One man saw it as a sick entry point for mass murder. The one is tragic. The billion are not. I choose to write for the billion. ↗

— Kurt Sutter

#been #billion #choose #entertained #entry

Think about a seed. Once it lands, it's stuck. It can't move to find better soil, moisture or sunlight. It's able to create every part of itself to grow and reproduce with the help of air, water and sun. ↗

— David Suzuki

#about #air #better #create #every

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

Custom adapts itself to expediency. ↗

— Tacitus

#custom #expediency #itself

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling. ↗

— Henry Taube

#ennobling #enriches #exercise #intellectual #itself

To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra. ↗

— Cecil Taylor

#me #orchestra #piano

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ↗