Own Quotes

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

As a playwright, you can cover a lot of waterfront without being able to hold your own against an expert in any of those areas. I have no illusions about that.

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.

And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I think that everybody has a right to their own thoughts, their own feelings and their own private moments, if they want them.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I am a southerner who grew up with and around guns. I own some still. My father gave me a .22 rifle when I was 9 and a single barrel .410 shotgun when I was 10.

I don't follow other players or the tournaments they play. I have my own schedule and do my own thing. I never really think, 'Oh, I want to be or play like so-and-so.' I just like being myself.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I'm extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

We learned about honesty and integrity - that the truth matters... that you don't take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules... and success doesn't count unless you earn it fair and square.

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.