Quotes of: My-own Keyword

I make my own judgements of people, mate. I don't need to borrow yours.

Kastor Chronicles 1: The Forge of Dawn

Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

To Kill a Mockingbird

There was not an inch of solid ground anywhere in the world for me to call my own. I didn't belong anywhere. Had I disappeared, no one would have noticed.

Shattered Illusions

I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment.

The Moon and Sixpence

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

Notes from Underground

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

I found Americans arrogant, Germans rude, Britishers selfish, Frenchs desperate, Chinese worried and my own nation stupid.

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Life with Picasso

And so, surpassing my own records for dangerous, reckless behavior, I ripped off Sonya's bracelet. "I'm Rose Hathaway.

Last Sacrifice

I prefer to solve the world's problems. They never seem as complicated as my own.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

I attributed the incidence to temporary insanity, and in my own defense, I'd like to say I haven't run over anyone since.

One for the Money

Oh, aye, Sassenach. I am your master . . . and you're mine. Seems I canna possess your soul without losing my own.

Outlander

This is the time to remember that I’m the protagonist in my own story, facing every challenge with grace and wit.

Popular: Vintage Wisdom for a Modern Geek

All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

Persuasion

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Prince of Thorns

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.

Quintana of Charyn

Love sounds like an elephant weighs. I know, because I’ve seen it with my own two nostrils. I’ve grown fat on the scent of Helen Keller’s memory.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If mannequins had mustaches, I feel there’d be more love in the world. I’ve recently started growing my own vegetables and clothes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Perhaps I was hosting my own personal sexual revolution. You know the kind that will not be televised.

Those Necessary Thorns: Desiree Elizabeth Taylor

I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

I stepped away from the car preparing my own smile because you catch more flies with honey than you do with shit.

On Unfaithful Wings