Top 100 His Own Quotes
#1. On the Place she met Lestivoudois on his way back, for, in order not to shorten his day's labour, he preferred interrupting his work, then beginning it again, so that he rang the Angelus to suit his own convenience. Besides, the ringing over a little earlier warned the lads of catechism hour.
Gustave Flaubert
#2. What shepherd feeds his sheep with his own blood? But Christ feeds us with His own Blood and in all things unites us to Himself.
Saint John Chrysostom
#3. I know that a man who tries to convert me to any cause
is actually at work on his own conversion,
unless he is looking for funds under the mask of some fancied nobility.
Ben Hecht
#5. I hope that when people see my body of work, they will say, 'That brother dropped it for real on us, even at the expense of his own image.'
Haywood Nelson
#7. No conjunction can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from which a man by his own energy may not extricate himself, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout.
Benjamin Disraeli
#8. He who loves fame considers another man's activity to be his own good; and he who loves pleasure, his own sensations; but he who has understanding, considers his own acts to be his own good. It
Marcus Aurelius
#9. In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.
Erving Goffman
#10. Magic is dangerous: it's neither good nor bad, right nor wrong; it can be both a blessing and a curse. It takes strength, the strength of a man, to make the magic his own, to make it serve him, and not the other way around.
Daniel Wallace
#11. My father's nature turned out no waste product; he had none of that useless stuff in him that lies in heaps near factories. He took his own happiness with him.
Margot Asquith
#12. I am a patient God. All men will come to Me in due time, but the agony of awaiting that day shall be theirs alone. And that day shall not come until man himself shall cleanse himself from his own unbalanced thinking.
Walter Russell
#13. Renee's self-possession, her ability to possess other selves, is a measure of the weakness of her husband, his inability to stop his own self from splitting in half.
Greil Marcus
#14. Man is just what he thinks himself to be ... He will attract to himself what the thinks most about. He can learn to govern his own destiny when he learns to control his thoughts.
Ernest Holmes
#15. A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.
Catherine Marshall
#16. No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.
Cesare Beccaria
#17. These are the kinds of things a guy thinks about when he visits his own grave.
Kami Garcia
#18. Today every believer has the potential to become a savior and a deliverer in his own area of specialization if only he/she make himself available
Sunday Adelaja
#19. Only a fool of a scientist would dismiss the evidence and reports
in front of him and substitute his own beliefs in their place.
Paul Kurtz
#20. I believe that the American poet ought to be a tough son of a bitch. He sought to hold his own in this culture on his own terms and not compromise under any circumstances.
James Dickey
#21. I have only one prayer to offer to God, and it is that when I have been driven out of every society He will give me shelter at His own feet.
Rabindranath Tagore
#22. A poet must discover that it's his own story that is true, even if the truth is small indeed.
Jim Harrison
#23. There are many countries who have traditionally sponsored terrorism. Iraq is one, though it appears the majority of the terrorism committed by Saddam Hussein is on his own citizens. Iran in this regard. Syria, with their close support of Hezbollah, is noteworthy in this respect.
Richard Armitage
#24. One day man will connect his
apparatus to the very wheel work of
the universe. The very forces that
motivate the planets in their orbits
and cause them to rotate will rotate
his own machinery.
Nikola Tesla
#25. From the wrestling of his own soul with the great enemy, comes that depth and mystery which startles us in Hamlet.
Jones Very
#26. Man imagines himself to be conducting his own life; and irresistibly his inmost being is drawn to its fate.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius
#29. Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
#30. The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
Jean De La Bruyere
#31. He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.
Michael Lewis
#32. To each his own. A billion Buddhas. A billion streams of wisdom. All smiling in their anguish.
Aporva Kala
#33. There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.
Zora Neale Hurston
#35. A good person dyes events with his own color ... and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.
Seneca The Younger
#36. Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.
Brandon Sanderson
#37. The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.
Algernon Blackwood
#38. He has this connection ... a pull of sorts, unearthing the very life of me and sucking me in to his own soul. -Morgan
Melisa M. Hamling
#39. To reduce man to the duties of his own city, and to disengage him from duties to the members of other cities, is to break the universal society of the human race.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#40. Good Lord, even to his own ears they sounded like a pair of coconspirators being so overhearty in their enthusiastic simulation of innocence that they proclaimed themselves as guilty as hell.
Mary Balogh
#41. I was probably Cameron's ideal that he'd dreamt up from within his own psyche. A living breathing fantasy. As though Cameron had imagined his perfect woman and I'd conveniently turned up. Only he'd given me to his best friend.
Vanessa Fewings
#42. The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel
#43. Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
Alexander Pope
#44. Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper. (pp.28-29)
Milan Kundera
#45. Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault. Each may form his own hypothesis upon the present evidence, and yours is as likely to be correct as mine.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#46. He who knows himself well is mean and abject in his own sight, and takes no delight in the vain praise of men.
Thomas A Kempis
#47. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#48. God has decided, for his own good reasons, that people are not transformed outside of community.
John Ortberg
#50. Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.
Aldous Huxley
#51. Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#52. Day hissed and it made God latch his mouth onto the tender spot on Day's neck and suck as hard as he could. He was still satisfying his craving to mark Day as his own. If he could have he'd probably have branded him with his name too. Somewhere very visible - maybe his forehead - God's Property.
A.E. Via
#53. Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.
John Christopher
#54. He had never felt entirely comfortable around Raphael. Raphael seemed to him like Loki or some other trickster God, sometimes working for good and sometimes for evil, but always in his own interests.
Cassandra Clare
#55. Bruce, you're an ugly and silly old man. You're very possibly an alcoholic and God knows what else. You're the type of sad case who preys on vulnerable, weak and stupid women in order to boost his own shattered ego. You're a mess. You've gone wrong somewhere pal.
Irvine Welsh
#56. Your guardian angel must have been working over time,' Penny laughed shakily.
Rose laughed as she put her arms around her sister and hugged her. 'More like the Devil taking care of his own.
Margaret Dickinson
#57. Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.
Charles Dickens
#58. He who is involved in ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for reality, and his own imagination for prophesy, is a fanatical novice of great hope and promise, and will soon advance to the higher stage and kill men for the love of God.
Voltaire
#59. The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and
his own discrimination.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#60. Once the principle is admitted that it is the duty of the government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments.
Ludwig Von Mises
#61. I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
Lajos Kossuth
#62. A gentleman sitting in spectacles before an old ledger, and writing down pitiful remembrances of his own condition, is a quaint and ridiculous object.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#63. One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
Georg Groddeck
#64. How interesting that a man didn't always admire his own traits in another. The
Grace Draven
#65. The power of a woman was different, he decided: sly, fearless, changeable as the moods of the sea, but he knew instinctively that that was the power against which his own would be measured.
Dalene Matthee
#66. When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His own desired results.
Steven J. Lawson
#67. He pointed to the board where the word 'alliteration' had been written in handwriting far better than mine, which on good days looks like it came from the hand of a blind doctor writing his own morphine scripts in an earthquake.
Robert Wilder
#68. The dreamer creates his dreams for his own purposes, selecting only those symbols which have meaning to him.
Seth
#69. But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
John Buchanan Robinson
#70. My regard for jurisprudence increased, I discovered in it religion. I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own.
Mahatma Gandhi
#71. Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#72. He (Lincoln) saw how intellectually and spiritually impoverished a person would be if he was limited to his own personal resources. The Bible, he recognized, vastly enlarged the area of experience on which an individual might depend.
Elton Trueblood
#73. The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Harold Rosenberg
#74. George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble. Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
Mark Shields
#75. I am not mine.
You are not yours.
No one can be his own.
I am not yours.
You are not mine.
No one can belong to another.
Werner Bergengruen
#76. All things are by Him and for Him. He utters Himself also for His own delight and sees that He is good. He is His own begotten and what proceeds from Him is Himself. Blessed be He!
C.S. Lewis
#77. Ico took the girls hand in his own, the gesture feeling intensely familiar, as the sun shone brightly over the end of their long story.
Miyuki Miyabe
#79. A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.
Elizabeth Missing Sewell
#80. Matthew, much to his own surprise, was enjoying himself. Like most quiet folks he liked talkative people when they were willing to do the talking themselves and did not expect him to keep up his end of it.
L.M. Montgomery
#81. A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can.
Jonathan Swift
#82. So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart.
Lord Byron
#83. You don't really understand an antagonist until you understand why he's a protagonist in his own version of the world.
John Rogers
#84. He was a romantic in his own harsh way ... yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all.
Stephen King
#85. The fact therefore must be that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist.
Thomas Paine
#86. His failure to adapt to new techniques, to pander (his own word), probably made his supporters love him all the more, and probably also narrowed his political base.
David Halberstam
#88. No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness.
Bertrand Russell
#89. Selecting a stroke is like selecting a wife. To each his own.
Ben Hogan
#90. These Scriptures, therefore, are infinitely far from justifying the slavery under consideration; for it cannot be made to appear that one in a thousand of these slaves has done any thing to forfeit his own liberty.
Samuel Hopkins
#91. When a man looks into a mirror and can no longer see his own reflection ... he has lost his way.
Brian Leslie
#92. The attentions of Wilkie Mackenzie were a conquest, an aspiration, a dream. The fresh memory of all those women, batting their eyelashes coquettishly, it boiled in my veins. One in particular. And Wilkie looked almost amused, now that his own jealousy had eased. "Are you jealous, my love?
Juliette Miller
#94. A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#95. We know Saddam Hussein possesses chemical weapons - he has for nearly 20 years as we know only so well from his use of them against his own people and the Iranians. He has deadly stockpiles of biological weapons.
Sandy Berger
#96. We are all beggars, each in his own way.
Mark Twain
#97. Arthur narrowly avoided tripping over his own skirt as he hurried out of the ladies' powder room in full pursuit.
Graham Moore
#98. Rock spun his captive around and nearly shit his own heart.
Julie Ann Walker
#99. A baby is born like a bird ready to soar from the mother's lap. The nets of societal rules and regulations puts him in a cage from which he can never escape to create his own new world.
Debasish Mridha
#100. ... the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author's emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And because few people talk about whether a young adult work is commercial or literary; the two are still in sync, and everyone's benefitting.
Eliot Schrefer
