Own Quotes

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image.

The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not worry about what other people think and you have to have the courage to do the unexpected.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.

No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.