#itself

It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#american #because #group #itself #like

I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible, because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#always #because #behind #characters #hides

The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet? ↗

— Edwin Markham

#feet #green #here #incredible #itself

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Sarah Orne Jewett

#down #gets #great #itself #last

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#democracy #experiment #freedom #human #human freedom

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones. ↗

— William Kent

#darker #feeling #garden #had #itself

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers. ↗

— Paul Klee

#concerns #emphasize #itself #like #mathematical

Pop Art looks out into the world. It doesn't look like a painting of something, it looks like the thing itself. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#into #itself #like #look #looks

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#distribution #even #fatigue #finds #itself

The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#caution #complex #controlling #degree #engineering