Own Quotes

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.

I own my own company, so I've never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn't sell. I've always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I've always had people buying them.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.

The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.