Own Quotes

The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.

Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

Well, I think in my own work the subject matter usually deals with characters I know, aspects of myself, friends of mine - that sort of thing.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

To the hard-working people who set a little bit aside each month, to provide for their children, or to fund their own retirement, I say: you should be rewarded not punished.

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.