Own Quotes

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.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

I don't follow trends. I'm just not into what everyone else is wearing. I have my own look, which I call 'Lolita Meets Old Hollywood Glam.'

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should.

Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.