We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.
If you play the theatrics too much, you get in the way of your own cause.
Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.
Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
(...) a director should tell a story that is close to his own existential experience.
There's something magical about a woman who feels comfortable in her own skin.
If you own this story you get to write the ending.
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse
We have our own reasons for what's motivating us right now.
In life you must write your own story, or one will be written for you.
The biggest trick of power may be to make its own existence unseen.
It is no exaggeration to say that the rich own most of what there is that is not nailed down.
