#itself

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love. ↗

— Charles Peguy

#genius #itself #love #love is #rarer

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single. ↗

— Alice Cary

#every #itself #meet #men #mingle

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty. ↗

— Patrick Dempsey

#creature #dangerous #delicate #destroyed #empty

I presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937—on my one stock investment—because I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a fool’s procedure . . . buying stock in other people’s businesses. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#business

I just have more fun when I get to try new things - and the action film genre has kind of painted itself into a corner, copied itself so many times and it has basically run out of bad buys. ↗

— Bruce Willis

#action film #bad #basically #buys #copied

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#forgiven #hypocrisy #hypocrite #itself #only