Own Quotes

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

My own view is that taping of conversations for historical purposes was a bad decision on the part of all the presidents. I don't think Kennedy should have done it. I don't think Johnson should have done it, and I don't think we should have done it.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.

Black man, you are on your own.

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

I think looking back to my own childhood, the fact that so many of the stories I read allowed the possibility of frogs turning into princes, whether that has a sort of insidious affect on rationality, I'm not sure. Perhaps it's something for research.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.

I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.