Own Quotes

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.

I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

You can make positive deposits in your own economy every day by reading and listening to powerful, positive, life-changing content and by associating with encouraging and hope-building people.

It's the worst when you're kissing someone who's not a good kisser, and you're trying to make it look good, but you feel like you're just working on your own.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.

The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to manage your own storage. That's a very big thing in a desktop world. And that may go away. You may not have to manage your own storage. You may not store much before too long.

The more we have the less we own.

I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

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.