Quotes of: Own Keyword

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Zadie Smith

My job as an actress is to make things work and come up with reasons of my own and not just fill in the blanks for anybody else, you know what I mean?

Amy Adams

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

Cameron Mackintosh

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

John Banville

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they can't feel anymore.

John Bradshaw

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Michael Caine

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.

Barry McCaffrey

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Rollo May

I woke up this morning with the words clomping around in my head: 'Truth does not become wisdom until the exact moment you're ready for it. No one can force it on you, even though everyone thinks they have a right to try. So the rest of us should jus...

Celebrating Time Alone: Stories Of Splendid Solitude

When you can find your own axis, you can revolve around it, for when you revolve your life on someone outside of you, you lose your own alignment. Just as the earth revolves around its own axis daily and through this eternal gentle revolving it also ...

Don't Think Of a Blue Ball

Create your own “LUCK” in your personal life—instead of relying on “fate” and hoping that your happiness will spontaneously materialize sometime and somehow, as if by magic. Be the “magician” of your own destiny. Take control of your ow...

The Honest Book of International Dating / Smart Dating Strategies for Men

There are powers far beyond us, plans far beyond what we could have ever thought of, visions far more vast than what we can ever see on our own with our own eyes, there are horizons long gone beyond our own horizons. This is courage- to throw away wh...

C. JoyBell C.

A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness

African

One's own simple bread is much better than someone else's pilaf.

Azerbaijani

It is better to work in your own land than to count your money abroad.

Croatian

You may boast to strangers, but tell the truth to your own people.

Croatian

You may light another's candle at your own without loss.

Danish

If the ox knew his own strength, God help us.

Greek

He who is his own judge never finds a reason to condemn.

Hebrew