Own Quotes

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister.

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.

Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.

It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.

Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

I've been working as an actress since I was very young, and I know a lot of people who are actors who don't have to deal with having a persona... You know, if you look up the word persona, it isn't even real. The whole meaning of the word is that it's made up, and it's like I didn't even get to make up my own. It can be annoying.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

I'm a classic emerald green Sixties Jaguar that nobody can own, but my husband is allowed to drive.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.

He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

I don't even own a cell phone.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.