Own Quotes

Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'll say to myself, I wrote this and he doesn't know it!

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

I'd rather know a square guy than own a square mile.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

It's hard to just kinda get some privacy and do your own thing.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.