Own Quotes

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own

To me, an outlaw is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not. I did things my own way.

I don't ever want to have kids of my own. But I do want a lot of kids.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

Take pride in yourself. Be your own person.

I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength.

I became the leader because of my father's leadership and I was considered as powerful as same as my own father.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.

I was shooting at myself - I was shooting my own violence and the violence of the times

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

The ability to lead a happy life is made, not found

I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.

People don't know how hard it is to have your own business

I like to control my own personal life.

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

The best recommendation I can have is my own talents, and the fruits of my own labors, and what others will not do for me, I will try and do for myself.

No idea is above scrutiny. No idea whatsoever. To criticize, to scrutinize and to satirize my own religion [Islam] is not Islamophobia.

Marriage? I ain't got time for a husband or child. All my life I've looked after myself as if I was my own child.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.

I've opened up more by traveling outside Jamaica. It helps me to grow as a person to be outside of my element; to be on my own in a strange place meeting people.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't think I had the right.

My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

If I could light my own farts I could fly to the moon or at least Uranus.

But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them.

My own apathy is bone chilling.

Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

Through my own struggles with depression, I discovered that knowledge, therapy, medication and education can provide the strength to get through it in one piece.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

The heart of the path is quite easy. There's no need to explain anything at length. Let go of love and hate and let things be. That's all that I do in my own practice.

I'm a minor player in my own life story.

I'm an extremist, I have to deal with my own extreme personality, and I walk the fine line of wanting to die and wanting to be the ruler of it all.