Own Quotes

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.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

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.

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.