Own Quotes

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

My favorite play in drama school was 'The Bacchae.' It's about a king who literally gets eaten alive by all the women in the play in a kind of orgy - it's related to the word 'bacchanal' - and I loved that idea of animalistic chaos and following our own desires.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

I made a lot mistakes that I'm grateful for, because I won't make them again and I won't let my artists make them, or I'll tell them, 'Don't do this.' A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can't be told things when you're doing your own thing.

I don't have to play by these rules or do these things... I can actually have my own kind of version.

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

If we all think only of our own interests, we are headed for collective disaster - just look at what we are doing to our planet's climate.

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

The belief that one's own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you.