Own Quotes

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

I say, don't try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood is in your own veins.

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

I don't do my own stunts, but I do my own fighting. I don't consider fighting to be a stunt.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.

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.