Own Quotes

Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

I'm competitive with myself. I always try to push past my own borders.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.