Own Quotes

I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

A slug is always on its own. It's a lonely insect.

I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

But a true diva has dismissed that drama. A true diva's heart is open, and she's ready to play by her own rules - rules that are gentle and kind.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.

If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

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