Own Quotes

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

The image that the public gets is whatever they perceive it to be. Everybody has an opinion, everybody has their own vision, so I don't know what my public image is. I have no idea.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Part of making any endeavour is that each one has its own special problems. It's the nature of the process.

People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite greater demands for good governance and political reform elsewhere in the world, including in Asia and in Africa.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

When I'm at home in Virginia, I become more hermit-like. I like my own home.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.

When the Nobel Committee chose to honor me, the road I had chosen of my own free will became a less lonely path to follow.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The world is made up for the most part of morons and natural tyrants, sure of themselves, strong in their own opinions, never doubting anything.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.