Quotation Explorer - 'Own'

Never let your fear of the unknown and things being too difficult make your choices for you in life. One of the saddest lessons in life is finding out that your fear made the situation worse than what it was and a braver person stole the dream you gave up on. - Shannon L. Alder

There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face. - Karen Joy Fowler

Dreams may never come true unless you try. - Unknown

You know you are on the right spiritual track when you realize that doing the right thing is not something you should do; rather, it is something you want to do. It is even something you have to do for your own peace, and the well-being of others. - Shannon L. Alder

If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle. - Rita Mae Brown

Don’t ever feel bad for making a decision about your own life that upsets other people. You are not responsible for their happiness. You’re responsible for your own happiness. Anyone who wants you to live in misery for their happiness should not be in your life anyway. - Isaiah Hankel

The kind of work that should be the main part of life is the kind of work you would want to do if you weren't being paid for it. It's work that comes out of your own internal needs, interests and concerns. - Noam Chomsky

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. - Steven Wright

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else. - Julian Jaynes

We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in 'reality.' And reality has a well known liberal bias. - Stephen Colbert

Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. To other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body.

When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens). - Dada Bhagwan

Why wait? So precious is this life—this gift—this temporary blindness. Burn and drown and embrace the false dark, then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy. For in the end, in the light of truth when the flesh is cast off, there is nothing but this. - Jennifer DeLucy

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love to watch Summer SkyFlashy yet calm!It feels I'm one of them...Sometime it seems they are streaming down! - Irfa Adam

When I consider the teachings, doctrines and what happens generally in the body of Christ both here in Europe, America and in Africa, I sometimes feel that I am living in my own reality. Either the whole world is getting it wrong or I am just running crazy - Sunday Adelaja

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. - Rita Mae Brown

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design. - Oprah Winfrey

You do not own me. I do not own you. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who recite prayers do not pray from their heart but are heard to say the words of the prayers that someone wrote down some time ago. - Errol Anthony Smythe

Humanity has one strength that no one has: that is we may feel the feelings, pain, jealousy, failure, love, happiness of others and identify with them, and even see the world through their own eyes. - Orhan Pamuk

No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome. - Anonymous

Never prove people right. Never prove them wrong. Prove instead that you make your own path in life. - Katina Ferguson

My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass. - Christopher Hitchens

As I drift through the autumn of my life like a fallen leaf blown about by the winds of time, I sometimes ponder my destiny. - Peggy Toney Horton

I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to 'em. - Will Rogers

They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night. - Katelin Wagner

Christmas is God deciding to become what He never had been, so that we can become what we never could be. And so, God does the most improbable thing imaginable. He orchestrates His own birth. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. - Socrates

My own personal position is that it's much more special to wait for the person who you're married to.

The person standing at the corner in the cold waiting for the ride is the most important person in the world and any transit system employees only exist for that person and act accordingly, above and beyond their own self-interest - Utpal Dutta

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve! - Stanislaw Law

Trying hard and working hard is its own reward. It feeds the soul. It affirms your will and your power. And it radiates from you, lighting the way for all those who see you. - Charles M. Blow

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine. - Alanis Morissette

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. - Unknown

Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. - Andre Gide

Hate spreads in the direction it is blown, but love spreads in all directions. - Matshona Dhliwayo

When we lose our spiritual child then that is when we have grown old. - Stephen Richards

We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated onto its surface by the Sun and is never proud to say "I am the source of light". God shines through us, hence He deserves the glory; not us. - Israelmore Ayivor

Don’t drown yourself in the pool of lies; fly high on the clouds of truth. - Vinita Kinra

If we could be seen thinking, we would show blown bright one moment, dark the next, like embers; subject to every passing word and thought of our own or other people's, mostly other people's. - Dorothy Whipple

A woman is so selfish that in order to safeguard her vested-interest and secure high position, she may even poison with words the minds of her children against her own man or anyone as close one. - Anuj Somany

Don't you know romance is mind's way of getting rid of it's own duality? - Saurabh Sharma

I'm a man. Men cook outside. That outdoor grilling is a manly pursuit has long been beyond question. If this wasn't understood, you'd never get grown men to put on those aprons with pictures of dancing weenies on the front, and messages like 'Come 'n' Get It! - William Geist

I left Beijing because I wanted to be alone and to forge my own path, but I know now that no path is solitary, we all tread across other people's beginnings and ends. - Ma Jian

Happiness often sneaks through doors you didn't even know were open - - Unknown (to me :P)

Never forget to smile; always forget to frown. - Debasish Mridha

No more apologies! So we're poor! All right, we're poor! This is America! And America is one place in this sorry world where people Shouldn't have to apologize for being poor. The question in America should be, 'Is this guy a good citizen? Is he honest? Does he pull his own weight? - Kurt Vonnegut

Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. - Diane Ackerman

I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin; and I’m turned off by those who are uncomfortable in their own shoes. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering has a way of sobering us up to the realization that we can't make it on our own, that we need help, that we're broken. - Tullian Tchividjian

Ideas about our own self-worth are no more real than thoughts about an imaginary chair. - Mark Williams

Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. - Julia Cameron

While looking down memory lane, I realized that I have had an unusual and extraordinary life at times. Then it dawned on me, maybe it's because I'm supposed to help unusual and extraordinary lives. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version. - Mahmoud Own

It's hard to imagine a more biblical definition of devil worship than an exaltation of the self, an exaltation of the ego, and a tearing down of that countercultural sign of the cross," Moore argued. This pride – doing things our way instead of following God's plan - Russell D. Moore

The most incredible thing about being a parent is seeing your own personality come out in your children. - Anonymous

Sometimes, you need to downgrade your dreams to upgrade your reality. - Jorge P. Guerrero

Communism in a capitalist world requires eliminating the hope of the citizens for owning what others own. - Osman Doluca

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. - Woody Allen

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader's own mirror. - Debasish Mridha

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be correct or true? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs? - Masashi Kishimoto

Life is like a game - we should be curious to play it - you explore and learn and grow - that is what it is for - that and having fun. It all expands consciousness- your own, the collective, and the cosmic. - Jay Woodman

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. - Unknown

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact. - James Joyce

Fame is the worst pain known to man. It’s stronger than heroin. - Nicki Minaj

The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything! In other words, every moment of our life holds a key for the unknown or the closed doors of new paths! - Mehmet Murat ildan

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance. - Bob Proctor

A true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart. - Shannon L. Alder

A poet must discover that it’s his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed. - Jim Harrison

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own. - Isaac Newton

your morse code interferes with my heart beat. I had a steady heart before you, I replied upon it, it had seen active service and grown strong. Now you alter its pace with your own rhythm you play upon me, drumming me taught. - Jeanette Winterson

If only my genitals didn't floatWhen I relaxed in the bathAnd we both looked down and we both agreedIt's stupid to be a man - Leonard Cohen

Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life – and maybe even please a few strangers. - A.L. Kennedy

The spirit of an artist's gifts can wake our own. - Lewis Hyde "The Gift"

My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass. - Leslie Grimutter

Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Trust that your child is trying to be the best he can be and that he will do this more readily without your criticism. Know that he usually sees his own faults without you continually pointing them out.

If commas are open to interpretation, hyphens are downright Delphic. - Mary Norris

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior. - Frida Kahlo

Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future. - Janusz Korczak

Never expect someone to care for you or to care about your feelings and emotios Everyone's fucking heartless, people just don't give a damn about your stupid feelings or your boring stories. People only know how to fool you around and use you for their own benefits. - Taimoor Madni

And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world. - Robert Frost

Courage, the original definition of courage, when it first came into the English language — it’s from the Latin word cor, meaning heart — and the original definition was to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart. - Brené Brown

A moment in time is the strangest and most powerful object in the known universe. - Khalid Masood

I found focusing on the positives was really beneficial. I wrote down thoughts about how much better I would feel and look and how much calmer and more present I would be when I could get through the initial phase of wanting sugar and pop out the other side - Damon Gameau

There is some awe mixed with the joy of our surprise, when this poet, who lived in some past world, two or three hundred years ago, says that which lies close to my own soul, that which I also had wellnigh thought and said. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way to know the answer is by asking questions. Religion tries to suppress the questions asking (curiosity) because it can threaten its own existence. The truth is out there, go ask for it! - Saurabh Gupta Earth5R

Now, a plain word here about the Christian church trying to carry on in its own power: That kind of Christianity makes God sick, for it is trying to run a heavenly institution after an earthly manner. - A.W. Tozer

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners. - William Browning Spencer

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) - Benjamin Constant

If You'r a Mechanical Engineer Don't Feel So Proud, Because You Can Repair Everything Except Your Own Heart"!!! - Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

But I assure you, a government that is willing to put their own children in danger, their own future, just to see their potential, is twisted. We do not grab babies, newborns, and throw them out of windows just to see if they sprout wings. - S. Elizabeth Dover

I happen to know that history is nothing but a spin and metaphor, which is what all yarns are made up of, when you strip them down to the underlay. And what makes a hit or a myth, of course, is how that story is told, and by whom. - Joanne Harris

Strive for excellence, not perfection. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Grace runs downhill and now all his time is being redeemed. - Geoffrey Wood

Our stomachs live in towns," said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else. - Alexander McCall Smith

Children are bad enough--children are rude, selfish, greedy, and unthinking individuals who are unable to distinguish between their own selfish wants and needs and the wants and needs of others. And adults are children with money, alcohol, and power. - Ian Sansom

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown. - Woody Allen

Even those, who some time ago believed all the stories about God, that is who believed that divine power exists, have now come to be so ashamed of their own belief, hiding their ignorance, they are now struggling hard to prove those stories as scientifically true. - Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

People are all diamonds. They are already valuable, brillant and unique in their own right. Sometimes a person can do with a buff, a fluff and a polish to bring out the natural brillance and clarity that has always existed within them. - Evette Rose

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. - Martha Beck

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage. - Arthur Schopenhauer

Never let the world know that you are sad or the world will let you down as well. - Akash B Chandran

You cannot take what I already know from me. You cannot withhold what I do not know from me because I have no knowledge of that which I do not know. And you cannot prevent me from knowing what I am supposed to know because the universe will find a way to reveal it to me. - Shantelee R. Brown

A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight. - Tonny K. Brown

Relationship doesn’t remain, We resonate on different flames, I could cut you down again, If you were like all other men, If you were like all other men, I know that I could shut you down again - Amy Winehouse

The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. - Winston S. Churchill

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives. - Asa Don Brown

No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant. - S.J. Kincaid

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. - Abraham Lincoln

You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs. - Abraham Hicks

Always count your blessings, even if you have to count them through your tears - Eleanor Brownn

The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away. - Anthony Liccione

You know you truly love somebody...When they hurt youAnd you still forgive themAnd they let you down But you don't leave themAnd they leave you But you can't help thinking about them - Mouloud Benzadi

Oh my love, pure and divine love,I want to drown in youand then get lost,to find myself again and again,as a symbol and source of love,pure, blissful and divine. - Debasish Mridha

Friends can be the best co-conspirators in charting the unknown. - Judith Orloff

If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. - Barbara Kingsolver

To find your own way in life, start going with all of your heart to find the beauty of life. - Debasish Mridha

No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillionShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

If one understands (realizes) his own Self, then he himself is an Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma). - Dada Bhagwan

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. - James Russell Lowell

sometimes the little words we put down are signs of the greater ones inside". - TopsyGift

The genesis of life, unfold before us, the mere essence of our being……tarnished.Mankind can no longer survive on its own. - Robin Alleyna

The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. - William Shakespeare

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact. - Aldo Leopold

It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out. - Khaled Hosseini

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lustLike diamonds we are cut with our own dust - John Webster

We can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. - Claude Bernard

Everyone sees only their own image in the mirror of thought. - Marty Rubin

We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future. - Bernard Lown

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. - Charlotte Bronte

To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray. - Ilyas Kassam

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Chuck Klosterman

Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities. - Michael Bassey Johnson

When you have nothing to lose you become the owner of everything. - Debasish Mridha

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed. - Gordon Parks

In the thoughtlessness of my incessant hurry, I have made God an ‘addendum in’ my life verses the ‘agenda of’ my life. And what I need to hurry up and realize is that with these priorities positioned as such, what I am hurrying to is my own demise. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself. - Epictetus

People that you meet, are pebbles in your river, but those that you hold true shall follow your current, like a leaf atop a stream. The boulder that blocks your path however, you just have to be willing to climb, or break it down with time. - Hieu

A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom. - J.R.R. Tolkien

There's always another side to the story but nothing compares to the glory of our own short sighted, one sided glorious view - AlunaGeorge

I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. - Wilkie Collins

As long as the constitution of my country is not amended to cut down the sizes of the dreams of its citizens, I have the freedom to dream extra largest dreams. I am even dreaming over-size dreams now. - Israelmore Ayivor

If you want success roll your sleeves up and fight for it! - Arlene Brown

You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR. - Tanya Masse

[W]hat I like best is staying home and reading. Being rich is not about how many homes you own. It’s the freedom to pick up any book you want without looking at the price and wondering whether you can afford it. - John Waters

The greatest wisdom consists in knowing one's own follies. - Madame de Sablé

I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders until I REALIZED I had the power to take it off - Kem Brown

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - Unknown

I want to be famous but unknown! - Edgar Degas

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? - Walt Whitman

Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire? - Gustave Flaubert

Every unknown is a beginning'. - Tracey-anne McCartney

When you're confident in what you bring to the table, you don't have to chase and beg anyone to sit down and eat. - Stephan Labossiere

Each and every day we manifest our own reality and this reality is experienced by a series of meaningful coincidences that we attract into our awareness by means of focused thought and vibrational alignment. - LJ Vanier

Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. - Unknown

A learned person underrates own intelligence & overvalues others importance, so remains in public largely shy; the foolish people overrates own importance & undervalues others intelligence, so often publicly lie. - Anuj Somany

Giving style to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye. - Friedrich Nietzsche

When a falsehood is coveted long enough, it becomes the truth that sustains its own existence. - E.B. Hudspeth

The secret of winning any prize is knowing that your own treasure and potential is equal to it... and worthy of it. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night... - Andrea Gibson

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) - Kellie Elmore

Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue. - Mary E. Pearson

Smile -- It's the second best thing you can do with your lips. - Unknown

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown! - William Shakespeare

When the unknown becomes known, we lose something very big: The beauty of mystery! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Unless you are free from your own mind, you can never truly experience the freedom with life. - Roshan Sharma

Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact. - Calvin Trillin

If you turn your nose up to people, God will turn down your prayers. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Idealists are either blind or clowns; because they think it is possible to have a beautiful world with asshole creatures like humans. - M.F. Moonzajer

When you're drowning you don't think, I would be incredibly pleased if someone would notice I'm drowning and come and rescue me. You just scream. - John Lennon

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps. - Mahatma Gandhi

Quit hating and trying be like the next man. Get on your own grind & be better than the next man, whether you gotta hustle, work a job or whatever just do you. - Surgeo Bell

Even a Menno sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly. - Miriam Toews

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. - Sir Barnett Cocks

I write in a fantasy world so I can make up my own rules and can change facts when I want to. It's all about having control. - C.S. Woolley

The human brain is a most unusual instrument of elegant and as yet unknown capacity. - Stuart Seaton

You can't bluff an old theologian. Linus - Charlie brown Christmas

I first heard of Parmenides' best-known assertion, "Whatever is, is." I laughed and blurted out, "And he's famous?" With this verbal ejaculation I revealed myself as the quintessential sophomore. - R.C. Sproul

Success is personal ownership of the dream, and responsibility for its desired outcome. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning. - Isaac Asimov

Writing Tip:Don't let the "writing rules" bog you down when you're writing the first draft; they don't matter when you're writing the story, only when you're editing the story. - Linda Westphal

I hate clowns. I've mentioned that, right? - D.J. MacHale

The day is always good, you just have to ignore the bad and look for the good. Remember it takes more muscle to frown then it does to smile, so smile for another day. - James Jean-Pierre

A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities - Jeremy Aldana

Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful. - Johnnie Dent Jr.

He who learns must suffer, and, even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus

"We regularly attribute our own failures to circumstance and the failures of others to bad character."

Because each of you has his or her own death, you carry it with you in a secret place from the moment you're born, it belongs to you and you belong to it. - José Saramago

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The human carries the formation of the whole universe in him. The time, he begins to realize his own identity, slowly the nature of the universe is revealed to him. - Roshan Sharma

If Man is stranger to his own research however, he starts redefining the life to cover up his err,and finally in his run, at his last hour,asks himself "What is this all about?" and lets his hour pass over. - Ajay Chandan

I am a nobody trying to be a somebody by not riding or pulling down anybody. - Amit Abraham

Silence has a grammar all its own. - Marty Rubin

My dreams were all my own; I accounted them to nobody; They were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

What are we doing to keep the light shining in our own eyes and countenances; Much of that light comes from our discipline dedication and consecration. - James E. Faust

Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. - Robert A. Heinlein

If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you. - Bernard Malamud

Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law. - H.C.Paye

I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. - Brené Brown

Take away love and our earth is a tomb. - Robert Browning

Don’t break a neck looking up for God. Try looking down at inspiring human deeds. - Gloria D. Gonsalves

Yes. And I’m rich now when I think about it. I own myself, and I’m worth eight hundred dollars. I wish I had the money. Then I wouldn’t ever want anything else - Mark Twain

Leave the talking for others and live by walking. Go, go and go extra mile and you will be a true owner of what belongs to you - Israelmore Ayivor

Loving you was like jumping into the dark side of a pool, and drowning. - Lori Jenessa Nelson

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others. - Joseph Priestley

I don’t have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women aren’t iPhone apps that I download and discard! - Natasha Ahmed

I've no interest in being thought provoking. Who needs more thoughts. I'd rather go down as one who is thought disposing. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver. - Eleanor Hamilton

originality and a feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All blood runs red. - Phrase painted on the side of the plane flown by Eugene Bullard in World War I the first black comba

Private Benjamin lives next door but one to Bob Cryer from The Bill. I once saw him crouching down behind a sycamore tree and using his nose as an Allen Key to release a starving rat. - St John Morris

People May Hate You For Being Different and Not Living By Society's Standards,but Deep Down,They Wish They Had The Courage To Do The Same. - Kevin Hart

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us. - Audre Lorde

When someone asks me what a song is about, it’s like, I feel like I might ruin it if you ask me that. I feel like I did my best to explain the song in the song on its own terms as a song. - Kyle Morton

A man after his own heart. - Bible

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet. - Idries Shah

I believe a Christian muffler shop owner should have the same right to refuse service to a gay couple, as a gay lifeguard has to refuse service to a drowning Christian. - Quentin R. Bufogle

There is a Japanese word for things made more beautiful by use, that bear the evidence of their own making, or the individuating marks of time's passage: a kind of beauty not immune to time but embedded in it. - Mark Doty

I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown. - Homer

You can't rest on your laurels. Your own body of work is yet to come. - Barack Obama

She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it. - Khang Kijarro Nguyen

In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea - James J. Houts

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. - LeeAnn Taylor

Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee. - William Grimes

If asked for an opinion we’ll say what we think. And by what we think I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that’s what our communication boils down to. - Aaron Blaylock

It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would be suicidal. - Thomas Sowell

How few human beings, the major thought with a sigh, can exert by hard work, thrift, intelligence or any other virtue the slightest influence on their own destiny. - FARRELL J.G.

Every seed wants to die in the soil! Every umbrella wants to live in a perpetually rainy world! Every mirror wants to see its own face in another mirror! Everything in this universe has dreams they wish to realise! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown. - William Hope Hodgson

When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications. - Steven Magee

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice! - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self. - Israelmore Ayivor

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down.It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses.It is not the streets that exist. It is the streets that no longer exist. - James Fenton

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. - Naomi Wolf

Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of the country we live in. - Michel de Montaigne

If you cannot do it without money, its passion exists in unknown galaxies than earth's core. - Goitsemang Mvula

We can't look to the world to restore our worth; we're here to restore our worth to the world. The world outside us can reflect our glory, but it cannot create it. It cannot crown us. Only God can crown us, and he already has. - Marianne Williamson

When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it' s always 'a big breakthrough' or a 'radical departure.' Why is it no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier? - Carol Burnett

When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of LightKnow that they already help you as much as they can.It is you who must come to meet them halfway. Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.They only can guide you to be your own best guide. - Raphael Zernoff

Those activities which are not concerned with numbers, but which are concerned with humans(Customers and Employees) is known as business. Numbers will ultimately increase if humans are happy who are involved in. - Rakesh Wadhwani

There are some people whose turbulent waves of behaviors will drown you no matter how well you think you can swim. - Steve Maraboli

War soaks into your bones, drills down into the marrow like a parasite. It blots your life like ink spilled on snow white paper, and it has its perils even long after you've given it up. - Christopher Johnson

Technology to wipe out truth is now available. Not everybody can afford it but it's available. When the cost comes down, look out! - Bob Dylan

Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes. - Randy K. Milholland

Tomorrow go out and do one good deed something you would'nt normally do, then make it a habit and add another each and every time you've owned and mastered the one before and then even you can turn Iron into Gold - Lateef Abader

I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments - Albert Einstein

Ik lees nauwelijks fictie. Onder ons gezegd en gezwegen, ik vind het iets voor verveelde huisvrouwen. Fictie. Dan Brown heb ik gelezen, omdat zoveel mensen dat kochten. Ik dacht, eens kijken of de massa smaak heeft. Maar dat was dus niet zo. - Arnon Grunberg

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. - Lawana Blackwell

Don't be so proud for being educated then other,you will never able to calculate your own hart-beets - Yaganesh Derasari

Why couldn't my heart have picked him? Life would have been so much easier.""Because hearts are ornery, sneaky little bastards, designed to cause misery. They want what they want, and they don't give a damn about what would make life easier or harder for the heart's owner." Della snapped. - C.C. Hunter

I was so tired of this ceaseless, day-to-day tug-of-war between my hormones and my head, my vanity and my virtue. I felt very much as though I were caught in the middle of some dreadful battle in which taking a side of my own would mean certain misery in either case. - Emily Tomko

Burnout, beat-up and broken down we may limp away from a failed relationship, job or environment, but we will be better equipped to follow our hearts...thoughtfully. Our ability to see the potential in ourselves and others will determine our success. - Steve Knox

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

There was no use feeling guilty about getting on to the ship when you are in the middle of the ocean. If you felt guilty or sorry, you had only one option – drown in the middle of the sea. - Jagdish Joghee

The people need poetry that will be their own secretTo keep them awake forever,And bathe them in the bright-haired wave of its breathing. - Osip Mandelstam

Begin your day by saying "I AM". You will begin to believe that you have control of your life, freedom of expressing yourself with ease, and the clarity to recognize your own truth. - Steven Cuoco

[T]he road to character is built by confronting your own weakness. - David Brooks

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. - Arnold Bennett

The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself; this is known as the illusion! - Dada Bhagwan

Straight men need to be emasculated. I'm sorry. They all need to be slapped around. Women have been kept down for too long. Every straight guy should have a man's tongue in his mouth at least once. - Madonna

As your attorney i advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit. - Hunter S. Thompson

Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we're called to win a crown that is imperishable? - Paul David Washer

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. - Franz Kafka

they hate you when your up but they love you when your down that's why i never give a soul my last pound - blanco vandam

The nearer a man lives to God, the more intensely has he to mourn over his own evil heart." -Charles Spurgeon - Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Unknown

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. - Isabel Colegate

The disillusionment with our own abilities is, perhaps, one of the most important things that can ever happen to us. - Tim Hansel

There will be haters, there will be doubters, there will be non-believers, and then there will be you proving them wrong. - Unknown 21

Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. - Unknown

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors. - Ambrose Bierce

Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult. - Julia Cameron

Thus it is, we sow motions of hatred out of our own impoverished understanding of love. Yet we do so in the name of love. The perplexing precipice of the illusory infirmity. - Steven Storm

Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand-in-hand. - Unknown

The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts. - Ricky Gervais

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. - Hyman G. Rickover

When you swim, be a part of the sea; when you walk, be a part of the road! Integrate with the universe! See it not as a distinct entity, but as your own continuation, as your own self! - Mehmet Murat ildan

As children we are taught, "Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!" As adults we teach those same words to our own children while simultaneously we sue one another for defamation or verbal assault. Ah, the naked leading the blind. - Bryan Oftedahl

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - Unknown

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. - Eudora Welty

Stop worrying whether the grass is greener on the other side. Find out how to own the other side. - Ashwin Sanghi

Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. - Michael Crichton

The Doctor: You betrayed me. You betrayed my trust, you betrayed our friendship, you betrayed everything I ever stood for. You let me down!Clara: Then why are you helping me?The Doctor: Why? Do you think I care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference? - Dark Water (Series 8)

Sisyphus, I. I cling to my rock, you don’t have to chain me. Stand back! I roll it up—up, up. And … down we go. I knew that would happen. See, I’m on my feet again. See, I’m starting to roll it up again. Don’t try to talk me out of it. Nothing, nothing could tear me away from this rock. - Susan Sontag

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. - Alan Watts

Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it. - Joe Brown and David Brown

Don't try to fit into another person's mold, be bold and beautiful in your own shape and form. - Eveth Colley

You create your own masterpiece as your actions draw pictures of your life canvas. - Debasish Mridha

The whole idea of awakening is about regaining self-trust. Through self-trust we remember how to be our own best guides. - Raphael Zernoff

The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries. - John Stuart Mill

Charm is deceptive, Wise is sly, having talent is impressive and that puzzles you why. I, but not you, know the mask that I wear. Like how a master knows its masterpiece which is unknown to the world. - Red Delachina

If something cames out from your mind it doesn't matter is it in the morning so early or it's too late for example it's nigh or you are outside with friends spend few minutes and write this down you could make something incrediable. - Deyth Banger

Perfection is based on your own perception of what is perfect to you - Avis J. Williams

The most precious gift that you can give to the child is unconditional love and acceptance, which allows the child to discover his own inner being, his authentic self, his freedom to be himself. - Swami Dhyan Giten

The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. - Vernor Vinge

I'm sorry for breaking down when I should've been stitching myself back up - Real Friends

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it. - Syed Azeem Bukhari

Don't try to give me a limited amount of choices. I make my own. - Maria Noor

Beauty is truth's smile,when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. - Shaynee Gokool

Have you ever wondered how your life would be if you will stop gossiping about people and using your words to bring people down? Try that today, speak only the good things you know about people and encourage others to do the same, - Ane Krstevska

Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds. - Unknown

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy. - Robert Heinlein

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its best to live imperfectly happy living a life of your own choice than to imitate someone else and be a plastic doll. - Upasana Banerjee

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority. - Stephen Colbert

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others. - James Madison

Haters are my favorite. I´ve built an empire with the bricks they´ve thrown at me. Keep on hating... - CM Punk

Speak in your own voice about the things that matter to you. - Marty Rubin

There are a billion people in China. It's not easy to be an individual in a crowd of more than a billion people. Think of it. More than a BILLION people. That means even if you're a one-in-a-million type of guy, there are still a thousand guys exactly like you." - A. Whitney Brown

You are not judged by your success, but rather, how you respond to your failures. - T.W. Brown

Isn't it what life is about, after all? A series of images that pass us by like towns as you cross along a long road? Then suddenly, a scenario stands and we know that image, that moment and all the feelings connected to it will remain alive no matter what? - Angélica Calheiros - Nove dias para amar

Getting there isn't half the fun - it's all the fun. - Robert Townsend

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail. - Fran Lebowitz

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side. - Dada Bhagwan

A person who speaks against one party and favors another is most likely to have just own enjoyment of a sumptuous meal in a bash or party. - Anuj Somany

There are many backstabbing friends who in your hard time will ignore you, without to ask something from them. You just are filled with sadness and they don't confide in you anymore. The downside of your hard time is being considered rude, negative, boorish and insistent. - Camelia C.

Latent brain functions can be enabled by force majeure when we are facing the weirdness of an unknown reality. - Toba Beta

The key to flow is to pursue an activity for its own sake, not for the rewards it brings."--(psychologist on the state of being he calls "flow") - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Though American scenery is destitute of many of those circumstances that give value to the European, still it has features, and glorious ones, unknown to Europe...the most distinctive, and perhaps the most impressive, characteristic of American scenery is its wildness - Thomas Cole

...he walked up and down through life. - Charles Dickens

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town. - Eleanor H. Porter

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. - Raheel Farooq

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story. - Charlotte Eriksson

Your true friends echo your own philosophies back at you. - J.R. Rim

The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Celebrities are like infants. Neither can wipe their own ass. - Michael Brian

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality. - James Cameron

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water. - John Woolman

Real leaders are people who help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own. - David Foster Wallace

Losing path is a magic! If you can enjoy with the unknown path, you shall find the exit much quicker! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Yes, it is true that beauty is only skin deep, and internal loveliness resonates to the outside; but deep down inside every woman secretly longs to possess the allure of a royal queen. - Terry A. O'Neal

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street. - Dr. Seuss

(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. - Galileo Galilei

Clear and purify your heart , because its the only thing you get respect , you feel emotions , you are known and most important you live !! - Hani.N

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. - Hector Berlioz

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance - Saleem Durrani

This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive. - Maggie Stiefvater

Who are you? No really. Way, way down deep. Who are you? - Doug Dillon

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else. - Steven Cuoco

The rash assertion that "God made man in His own image" is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths. - Arthur C. Clarke

Now I check myself in the mirror."Why do women do that?" he asks."What?""Look yourself down like there's some problem needs fixing. You're better than fine. - David B. Ramirez

Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures. - Gugu Mona

Life is not given to us just to ZOOM from WOMB to the TOMB. Slow down... Enjoy the Journey! - - RVM

There's a direct correlation between faith in the righteousness of Christ and zeal in the cause of Christ. The more a person counts as loss his own righteousness and lays hold by faith of the righteousness of Christ, the more he'll be motivated to live and work for Christ. - Jerry Bridges

Sharing feelings, conveying appreciation and whispering desires are all crucial components of a satisfying encounter with your beloved. - Brownell Landrum

A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. - Irish Proverb

When one sees his own faults, he will not have the time to see the others’ faults. - Dada Bhagwan

No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God. - Leo Tolstoy

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional - Russian, Unknown

Athletes need to enjoy their training. They don't enjoy going down to the track with a coach making them do repetitions until they're exhausted. From enjoyment comes the will to win. - Arthur Lydiard

Sometimes, as much as writing saves one’s own life, you cannot imagine how it will save another’s. This is another reason why it is important to do the work, over and over again. It is food, the kind a soul needs. - Lilith Saintcrow

Humanity i love you because youare perpetually putting the secret oflife in your pants and forgettingit's there and sitting downon itand because you areforever making poems in the lapof death Humanityi hate you - E.E. Cummings

Seeking revenge is like reaching out for your own personal turmoil, it's never worth it. Righteousness will always come through Jesus Christ. - Ron Baratono

Allowing children to fight their own battles is one of the hardest parenting skills to learn.

If money could buy happiness, the rich would not drown their sorrows in expensive wine. - Matshona Dhliwayo

You know Becky, you haven't been the same since that crowbar fell on your head." - - said to me by my mother after I eloped with a guy I'd known for about 30 days, when I was 18 years old! - Becky Lewellen Povich

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates,Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins. - Anna Akhmatova

The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service. - Stephen Sondheim

I ask you men...what are you so afraid of? If I am equal to you in power, does that diminish you? - Rita Mae Brown

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven - John Milton

Run your own race. Fear creeps in when we compare ourselves too much with others. - Sanchita Pandey

Sometimes we look at life from the perspective of our own problems and, in so doing, ignore how fortunate we are. - The Prophet of Life

Hong Kong became so materialistic that it must be one of the rarest places in the world where family members need to make an appointment to have dinner together, and people speculate upon their own home where their own children are growing up.’Quote from my 7th book about Hong Kong! - TIM I GURUNG

Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do. - Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. - Francis Bacon

If you won't push someone up, the least you can do is not to pull him down. - Nana Awere Damoah

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. - Mary GrandPré

I should have known when I first saw that picture. For it is a very remarkable picture. It is the picture of a murderess painted by her victim-it is the picture of a girl watching her lover dies. - Agatha Christie

Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, but has trouble enough of its own.

You don't have to be ashamed feel down, to have a good cry; we are human after all and it's the part of humanity. - Euginia Herlihy

Live a life that transcends your own! - Dalai Lama XIV

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. - Unknown

May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead - unknown

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do. - Ashly Lorenzana

I know I won't live long. So I'm going to stand strong and not sit down in disbelief, hold my head up high and not waste my time wondering why my life has to be so rough and unfair. I'm going to strive and live everyday for the better until that day arrives. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage. - Aurobindo Sri

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,Student of our sweet English tongue,Read out my words at night, alone:I was a poet, I was young.Since I can never see your face,And never shake you by the hand,I send my soul through time and spaceTo greet you. You will understand. - James Elroy Flecker

Anything that was created today were once an unknown insecurity far beyond the next chapter of your life! - Vishwanath S J

Neglect of women is the major cause for the society’s downfall. - Abhijit Naskar

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt

Ones life will have much more meaning and happiness if one makes their own decisions - Duncan William Gibbons

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. - Boris Pasternak

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not. - Eric Hoffer

We often seek beauty in the outside, in the unknown, and often lack to realize the sheer beauty right in front of our very eyes, back home. - Akilnathan Logeswaran

As long as I’ve known her, she’s seen the very best version of me, even when I didn’t believe that guy existed. - Amanda Weaver

Stop comparing yourself to others. You have your own race to run. Finish well.<3 - Lecrae Moore

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth. - William Hazlitt

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous events of the past cast their shadows down the ages, so now, when the sun is drawing toward the dark,our own shadows race into the past to trouble mankind's dreams. - Gene Wolfe

If [you're asked] what you think, tell. If you have a preference, voice it. If you have a question, ask it. If you want to cry, bawl. If you need help, raise your hand and jump up and down. - Kristin Richter

Fools rush in where fools have been before. - Unknown

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa

A fight is like the perfect storm. It is risky and dangerous. But, as the African proverb goes, Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors. Fights are often learning opportunities—if we’re willing to dig deep enough past our own egos. - lauren klarfeld

We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent to our suffering, and therefore offering us maximum freedom to thrive, or to fail, in our own chosen way. - Stephen Jay Gould

If I may paraphrase 's well-known aphorism, I would say that 'books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science. Thomas Henry Huxley - Hobbes

Walk into the unknown with what you know in your heart. - A.D. Posey

Don’t run from your feelings; sooner or later, they’ll catch up and throw you down." EL Meeting life on life's terms! - Evinda Lepins

To be saved is to believe in one's own courage. - Marty Rubin

If a person advises others to beg to be happy, then instantly the people ought to make sure that his/her own bag is not empty of happiness. - Anuj Somany

Surrendering is intentionally laying down the power I possess. And have I considered that the power I lay down is often more powerful than that which I’m laying it down in front of? Therefore, I would be wise to recognize that surrender is less the absence of power and more the presence of fear. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

Freedom without structure is its own slavery. - David Brooks

The possibility of truth has become a delusion to those who made their own disguise the truth. - Nema Al-Araby

Do not allow the negative of the past to mask your sight. - Asa Don Brown

it's all right", he said in a clear voice as if explaining something to a child. "It's quite all right. She's having a rest. We'll be going soon. There's no hurry. You see -" Bond's head sank down against hers and he whispered into her hair - "you see, we've got all the time in the world". - Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Life is like a medicine forced down your throat... You can spit it out all you want but ultimately you realize you have to swallow it to get better - Tahira Abrar

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination. - Laurell K. Hamilton

Your ancestors are rooting for you. - Eleanor Brownn

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire! - John Forster

Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own. - Orrin Woodward

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? - Lenon Honor

Music is a language that speaks to people emotions. - The Unknown

Canada is the place where maple syrup is its own food group. - Jenny McWha

I may be a little like the grown-ups. I must have grown old. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self. - Oprah Winfrey

There are still some wonderful people left in this world! They are diamonds in the rough, but they're around! You'll find them when you fall down– they're the ones who pick you up, who don't judge, and you had to fall down to see them! When you get up again, remember who your true friends are! - C. JoyBell C.

Become your own success story, not someone else's. - Stephen Richards

Be your best proponent, ally, and advocate. - Asa Don Brown

Own your errors but never be consumed by them. If you are willing to learn they provide great opportunities for how not to do it a second time around. - Lennox D.Lampkin

As history has shown, any new computing device capable of running a game will, by hook or by crook, soon have them available. (aka, the "Loguidice Law") - Bill Loguidice Matt Barton

We have yet to establish a permanent Mars colony for this reason: Trying to colonize Mars with humans is a known suicide mission that no one is talking about. - Steven Magee

A Man's management of his own purse speaks volumes about character - Thomas Jefferson

If you wait to live you will never succeed. Living begins today and it begins within you. - Asa Don Brown

The only queer people are those who don't love anybody. - Rita Mae Brown

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If it's me who loves you, you'll know, as I will tell it you in my own words. - Auliq Ice

I want to die.I want die by drowning in love.I want to die by becoming drunk, by drinking the pure wine of love.I want to die in an accident, By falling in love andbreaking my heart. I want to die by losing in the game of love. - Debasish Mridha

Humility is the nearly impossible task of being more concerned with our own sins that we are with the sins of others. - Trevor hammack

My heart's made of goldMy soul is pure steelLoved ones shall riseEnemies will kneelI soothe with water, attack with fireFor I am the master of my own empire. - Sarah Brownlee

i see when you doubt yourself, i feel your fear. please put down your burden and remember i am here. -your angels. - Nikki Rowe

Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written. - John 21:25- Holy Bible

Downfall, failure and death cannot be far from any man who made counterfeit friends his ally and support. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

It was as if life could be shown but never explained, and words - all the words that did not say things directly - were for him the most truthful. - Richard Flanagan

My whole theory of writing I can sum up in one sentence. An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Judge: a law student who marks his own papers. - H. L. Mencken

Raise and Praise; it keeps the devil away!Feeling down? Start praising even if it is a sacrifice of praise. You will soon start feeling better because the devil will not stick around & praise God with you! - Sandra Lott

You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You have the whole world to choose from. If you have something to say, say it. Live your life as you want to live it, not how others perceive your life to be lived. Take control. Today. - Michelle Geaney

Let me fly with the wings of love or let me drown and die in the love. - Debasish Mridha

Could it be that God is so intensely personal that He would burn down your world in hopes of building it back? - Matt Chandler

I realized that all my life, my values were based upon typical middle-class American values: hard work, doing good, living well, owning things, following the rules & being the best I can be... but God clearly says, "those are not MY values. I value justice, mercy & humility. - John Green

Friends are like ants, they walk into your life unnoticed and take over your life as if its like their own. But unlike ants they leave behind million smiles, uncountable memories. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya

They can't see your painThey can't see your sadness They will smile if you smile to themThey will leave you if you frown to them - Hadi NourAllah

Enlightenment doesn’t make us a better person if we seek it just for us. It doesn’t erase our desires or put an end to even our own suffering. In fact it is the suffering that ennobles us. - Balroop Singh

Inspiration is trying the unknown. - Abdulazeez Henry Musa

We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has. - Amy Carmichael

The truth is easiest to disprove - its defenses are down.

When kings the sword of justice first lay down; They art no kings, though they posess the crown; Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things, The good of subjects is the end of kings.

At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't. - Paul Graham

Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience. - Masaru Ibuka

We are here to know the unknown, love everyone, feel the joy of life and then we parish with infinite happiness. - Debasish Mridha

As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own. - Dana Gore

Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words - Rise Against

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring." - Christopher Pearce Cranch

The fact is that a person has to not only often unwillingly retract from own right words, but also many times apologize for the same ,in fact, on telling the people the undeniable, altruistic fact. - Anuj Somany

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art. - Madonna

I read somewhere that dedications are like coded love letters, but I always seem to lay us out bare.Sorry for the poems. - Unknown

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits him. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need. - Shannon L. Alder

MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil, fertilizing it, as a rule, with the bodies of the original occupants. - Ambrose Bierce

The language of marriage is often a language of ownership, not a language of partnership. - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder

And whose fault was it that the boy swallowed down lies, when no one would feed him the truth? - Lois McMaster Bujold

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Unknown

The positive energy and love we give to others, heals our own wounds. - Angie karan

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. - Samuel Johnson

There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life’s meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work. - André Breton

I hope each and everyone of you reach for the stars and land among the clouds. You have one life one body take care of it, own it. live it and love it. Live your life to the fullest without being reckless. - Bonnie Zackson Koury

I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry - Unknown

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. - Mark Twain

Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [...]. - Arlaina Tibensky

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head. - Giacomo Casanova

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues. - Jay Woodman

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves... ☥ - Luis Marques

Pass down the good that I do unto you when you are done with it - Amit Abraham

Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. - Unknown

I believe, he said gently, we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someone else’s. The trouble with life sometimes is that we are all in it together. - Mary Balogh

Philosophy does not promise to secure anything external for man, otherwise it would be admitting something that lies beyond its proper subject-matter. For as the material of the carpenter is wood, and that of statuary bronze, so the subject-matter of the art of living is each person's own life. - Epictetus

A man is known by the company he avoids. - Anonymous

He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all. - Irving Stone

And then one day you realise that if you want to be rich, you'd have to give away almost everything you own. - Kamand Kojouri

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. - Albert Einstein

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes. - Ronald Reagan

It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family. - Confucius

If a man is destined to drown, he will drown even in a spoonful of water. - Yiddish Proverb

No kind of social system can make you more happier and secure than your own money. - Amit Kalantri

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me. - Kendal Rob

I listen with attention to the judgment of all men;but so far as I can remember,I have followed none but my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

No woman can call herself free who does not control her own body. - Margaret Sanger

And sorrows return, though we drown them with wine,Since the world can in no way answer our craving,I will loosen my hair tomorrow and take to a fishingboat. - Li Bai

I tell you before God, and as an honest man, your son (W A Mozart)is the greatest composer known to me by person and repute, he has taste and what is more the greatest skill in composition. - Joseph Haydn

When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.

We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down. - Jessica Lave

Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages... - Charles W. Leadbeater

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shores our bed and eats at our own table. - Herman Melville

Everybody's at war with different things...I'm at war with my own heart sometimes. - Tupac Shakur

Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down. - John Rechy

Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place. - Asa Don Brown

Writers don't just create pages in a novel, but depth to worlds that become a safe haven for those who wish to escape the reality of their own. - T.J. Mihaila

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. - Karl Lagerfeld

We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we are the grown-ups.

People love to read about sins and errors, but not their own. - Barbara Kingsolver

If the storm forgets to bring a rainbow, paint your own. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death. - Donna Lynn Hope

Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step. - Karl Lagerfeld

I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case. - John Knowles

The more I think I know I realize, the more that is left unknown and that's the best part. - L.J. Vanier

I have been one acquainted with the night.I have walked out in rain - and back in rain.I have outwalked the furthest city light.I have looked down the saddest city lane.I have passed by the watchman on his beatAnd dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. - Robert Frost

In happiness and suffering, in joy and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self. - Mahavira

You were never born with a silver spoon in your mouth. Don't think that way. You were born with a diamond spoon in your palm. Carry it by your own hand. Now, feed yourself - Israelmore Ayivor

Appreciate the moment of a first kiss; it may be the last time you own your heart. - Robert M. Drake

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven. - Scott Hastie

What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over. - Woodrow Kroll

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. - George Orwell

Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. - Unknown

I don't know who explained this rule to me; maybe it was the product of my own speculations and fantasies. That would have been typical: I was always inventing stories and machinations to make sense of things I didn't understand, and I understood almost nothing. - César Aira

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine! - Justin K. McFarlane Beau

Catholics have more extreme sex lives because they're taught that pleasure is bad for you. Who thinks it's normal to kneel down to a naked man who's nailed to a cross? It's like a bad leather bar. - John Waters

If you can't suck a carrot, go suck a potato! - Crying Unknown

The first act of honoring the self is the assertion of consciousness: the choice to think, to be aware, to send the searchlight of consciousness outward toward the world and inward toward our own being. To default on this effort is to default on the self at the most basic level. - Nathaniel Branden

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses. - Charles Kingsley

Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. - Michel de Montaigne

Everybody looks good in their own mirror! - Manoj Vaz

Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world. - Sunday Adelaja

To be original is not creating your own idea; it's the essence of the idea in the reader's mind. - Kaela Marooney

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other - Veronica Roth

The garden was full of sorrowSongbirds and unusual winds whistled a rhymeClouds caused to appear and cast down darknessFor this was the first day the sun didn't shine - John E. Wordslinger

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. - Doctor Who

Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. - Unknown

Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what is known about the way the world works. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give us our hearts' desire (if I may put it so)? How could we press Him as though He were not our own most loving Father? - Amy Carmichael

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. - Martin Buber

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble onto something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling onto something sitting down. - Charles F. Kettering

Cultivate a spirit of joy and praise. Not only will you light up your own heart, but the hearts of those around you.Always look for the good in people. In most cases you will find it. - Loretta Livingstone

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? - Russell Hoban

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes. - P.S. Bartlett

No man is as big as his own idea. - Ray Bradbury

Some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever leaving you in anticipation to read the next page.Some people are the same way. - Katie Douglas

When do you become a man? When you become your own man. When other men trust you to do a man's work. Trust you with their name, their reputation, their thoughts. Trust you to watch their backs and trust you with their lives. - Carew Papritz

I am the Constellation of my own - Oksana Rus

At home you could depend on your parents, but in America you are on your own and should make as many friends as you can . . . You don't know who may hold out a helpful hand in your hour of need. - Ha Jin

My world is about FEELings. Sometimes, these feelings run so deep i fear i will drown.Creatively, it's a dream to be so sensitive. In real life, it's exhausting, as i tread water to keep myself from sinking. - Jaeda DeWalt

Nowadays the job of the judge is not to do justice. The judge is more of a functionary . He's like a civil servant whose job is to interpret words written down by another branch of the government, whether those words are just or not. - Stephan Kinsella

More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos. - Leonard Seet

There is no color to known to beauty except elegance. - Wayne Chirisa

Your opinion should be based on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears & feel with your own heart. - Tanya Masse

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. - Ernest Hemingway

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it - Roald Dahl

It is not a religion. It is a relationship. - Unknown Author 516

I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm. - Robert Farrar Capon

If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. - Unknown

"We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself- -ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is free in this world. That which comes before you is your very own. - Dada Bhagwan

Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke fat, lazy or stupid. Those things are just what happens to you when you dont have a plan. - Maerlan Rico Lee

.it's a long road when you're on your own ,but there's no better teacher.. - Boris Kovalík

Brown paper represents the primal twilight of the first toil of creation, and with a bright-coloured chalk or two you can pick out points of fire in it, sparks of gold, and blood-red, and sea-green, like the first fierce stars that sprang out of divine darkness. - G.K. Chesterton

don't look in my eyes you will fall into a deep well and drown - d nasty

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. - Les Brown

She was a coquette; he was sure she had a spirit of her own; but in her bright, sweet, superficial little visage there was no mockery, no irony. Before long it became obvious that she was much disposed towards conversation. - Henry James

Love is making friends with fear because fear is the constant companion of intimacy ~ and when you bring fear out of the darkness and into the light, you realize it was an illusion based on our own insecurities. - Allen L. Roland

If we could stop thinking of 'meaning' and 'purpose' as artifacts of some divine creative act and see them instead as the yield of our own creative future, they become goals, intentions and processes very much in reach rather than the shadows of childlike, superstitious mythology. - Douglas Rushkoff

When you're lost, admit it, and ask for directions. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

We as a black culture have been through so much from slavery, lynching, dogs sicced on us,water hosed down, shot and killed in America. But we shall still overcome everything! - Alcurtis Turner

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another. - Marquis de Condorcet

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

No one is truly literate who cannot read his own heart. - Eric Hoffer

You are on your own now , you have always been & you shall forever be . - Omneya Yasser

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it. - Shannon L. Alder

Innovation is about practical creativity - it's about making new ideas useful... - Max McKeown

Teachers' favorite color ink, splashed and dripped down his face a grisly reminder of mistakes bruising his life. - Jazz Feylynn

After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws, it will be discovered that the gasket has been omitted. - De la Lastra's Corollary

gimme thousands of choices of joy and glory. gimme dreaming promises that lift up my intention.I won't take one of them at all cos I've chosen my own and it's you - neo wasiman

Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters. - Steven Magee

Yankee Stadium, it’s like everything else in this country. In Europe, they save all their old buildings for history. Here, we just tear them all down. - Bob Feller

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down. - David Shore

Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. - William Shakespeare

Ultimately, intellectual work of this sort is its own reward, because it is focused on the only One whose recognition is important, the One before whom all hearts are open. - Mark A. Noll

Everyone chooses their own path in life but it is either to life or death. - Bamigboye Olurotimi

The saddest thing about death, whether it's our own or someone we care for, is when the world doesn't stop when we do. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Blessed is the man that endureth temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life. - Bible

Vampires and humans; we are all monsters in our own way at the end of a dream, or a nightmare. - Cameron Jace

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another. - William Butler Yeats

A reputable person is he who has trust in his own Self. Self means who? I am Pure Soul, it is that Self. - Dada Bhagwan

Reading makes me feel like I've lived a thousand lives in addition to my own. - Arlaina Tibensky

If you launch a career doing something you don't really like, that even if you're successful, you won't feel successful, and you'll be contemptuous of your own success. - Douglas Copeland

If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them. - C. JoyBell C.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. - Carol Burnett

If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. - James Fenimore Cooper

I don’t own anything, but I have everything. - Debasish Mridha

Thou art a manGod is no moreThy own humanityLearn to adore - William Blake