Own Quotes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.

Sometimes it seems like we're closer to our manicurists than we are our own souls. We have to find ways to get in touch with that and to listen to it and to hear it.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

I grew up in the Bible Belt and I made my own clothes and dyed my hair purple. Nobody ever knew what to do with me.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to denigrate them.

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Freedom - to walk free and own no superior.

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

I was born in America but all of my friends' parents, everybody's parents, including my own, had come to America from Europe. Many people in my neighborhood hardly bothered to learn English.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.