Own Quotes

Now there is a growing feeling, it's something that David Cameron led on actually, he said this some time ago, that MPs should not be voting on their own pay.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If you're trying to be like somebody else, then there is isn't.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

In our daily life, we encounter people who are angry, deceitful, intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger, distrust, greed, and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

I feel strikingly domestic. We're in our own world with two busses and trucks.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.