Top 100 Its Own Quotes
#1. There is a reason why America produced the most vigorous feminist movement in the world: We were one of the only countries in which the middle class (which is wealthy by world standards) customarily employed its own women as domestic servants.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#4. One world on its own is a strange enough seethe of coiling, unknowable veins of intention and chance, but two? Where two worlds mingle breath through rips in the sky, the strange becomes stranger, and many things may come to pass that few imaginations could encompass.
Laini Taylor
#5. True love goes ever straight forward, not in its own strength, but esteeming itself as nothing. Then indeed we are truly happy. The cross is no longer a cross when there is no self to suffer under it.
Francois Fenelon
#7. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him.
Thomas Harris
#8. Medicine cat' means nothing on its own, without an understanding of what should be done
which isn't always what you first think.
Erin Hunter
#9. There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance to stand away from relationships and daily ritual ... and the gift of energy. Wilderness infuses us with its own special brand of energy.
Linn Thomas
#10. It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.
Gelett Burgess
#11. For me, the canvas is an abstract interpretation of a wall. It's a piece of art with its own history, one that alludes to the passage of time and to the theater of life.
Jose Parla
#12. The egg is glowing now, as if it had an energy of its own. To look at the egg gives me intense pleasure.
Margaret Atwood
#13. Silent harmony is the gift you give yourself ... As you push past the infinite, you can feel your own music, your own frequency, beginning to project itself past you, beyond infinity, into nowhere, starting to generate its own star.
Robert Young
#14. Every phenomenon manifests itself of its own accord. This manifestation is always distinct from form, and is the essence of the immediate, the trace of the immediate.
Yves Klein
#15. Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.
Quentin Crisp
#16. Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
Glen Hansard
#17. Most of all, Creation must be protected for its own sake, even if we currently assign no value or an incorrect value to it.
Klaus Topfer
#18. Knowledge is power? No. Knowledge on its own is nothing, but the application of useful knowledge, now that is powerful.
Rob Liano
#19. One often reads that the 1950s was the golden age of Cuban music, but it was really one long phase, from 1937 to 1958, each year with its own splendour.
Ned Sublette
#20. My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs.
Maya Angelou
#21. We must teach our children that the preservation of liberty, and of an order of society conducive to human dignity, requires that a free people retain the moral and material means to discipline its own government, should the temptation to tyranny take root.
Alan Keyes
#23. Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable.
Anonymous
#24. The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).
Saint Augustine
#25. Misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.
Greg Abbott
#26. Righteousness acts never in its own interest, but in the interest of fellow men.
Thaddeus Of Vitovnica
#27. Release your problem to God with a prayer that the answer will come in its own good time and place. Hold the attitude of faith and expectancy, knowing that God has all the answers, that His knowledge is limitless and can never be exhausted.
Wilferd Peterson
#28. In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.
Thomas Mars
#29. If we had a hydrogen economy worldwide, every nation on earth could create its own energy source to support its economy, and the threat of war over diminishing resources would just evaporate.
Dennis Weaver
#30. In the modernist era the division between art and the world was close to absolute, or put another way, art was a world of its own.
Karl Ove Knausgard
#31. Empire always overreaches itself and thus dies by its own hand victim of its own ambitions
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#32. Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker
#33. We may end up with a life deferred by the business of its own collection.
Sherry Turkle
#34. Things don't just happen the way they happen for your its own Creator,Mentor and Destroyer
Abhishek Sundarraman
#35. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.
Walter Rodney
#36. Gray means being open-minded. I always look at the world that way; I'm able to hear both sides of an argument. I don't listen to opera, but I don't think it's good or bad; it's just its own thing. I can completely appreciate it.
Graham Elliot
#37. From then on, he was convinced that the universe dazzled mankind with volcanic eruptions, but had its own secret way of communicating with the select few, people like Andrew who looked at reality as though it were a strip of wallpaper covering up something else.
Felix J. Palma
#38. In stamping photography with the patent of realism, society does nothing but confirm itself in the tautological certainty that an image of reality that conforms to its own representation of objectivity is truly objective.
Pierre Bourdieu
#39. Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
Lester Bangs
#43. There is, of course, great value in belonging to a group. Safety in numbers, for one. But there is also a mathematical explanation for why the brain is so willing to give up its own opinions: a group of people is more likely to be correct about something than an individual.
Gregory Berns
#44. Anything you make has its own wavelength and its own sound. It's like a tuning fork, until the things that resonate are correct for it.
Akiva Goldsman
#45. Every business, like a painting, operates according to its own rules. There are many ways to run a successful company. What works once may never work again. What everyone tells you never to do may just work, once.
Richard Branson
#46. Every company should work hard to obsolete its own product line - before its competitors do.
Philip Kotler
#48. Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson
#49. Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.
Hildegard Of Bingen
#50. I owned a 1972 Plymouth Valiant that we bought for $125. It was infested with cockroaches and geckos - it was its own little ecosystem.
Aaron Eckhart
#51. Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#53. Alcohol. It sucks the life out of a face and replaces it with its own dumb shine of inanity. It's up to you. If you want to lose yourself, have a drink.
Kevin Brooks
#54. There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
Fairfield Porter
#56. The new century has brought on its own terrible dangers, which although not reaching the apocalyptic potential of the Cold War, still have the capacity to shake our world.
Adam Schiff
#57. Each part of life has its own pleasures. Each has its own abundant harvest, to be garnered in season. We may grow old in body, but we need never grow old in mind and spirit. No one is as old as to think he or she cannot live one more year.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#58. What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.
Romare Bearden
#59. Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.
Harper Lee
#60. Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
Alex Kapranos
#61. The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending.
Tom Coburn
#62. Art is not documentary. It may incidentally serve that function in its own way but its true effort is to open to us dimensions of the spirit of the self that normally lie smothered under the weight of living.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. The English mind is intelligent rather than intellectual. The French are intellectual in the sense that the intellect is emancipated and left free to run its own course.
Ralph Barton Perry
#64. This practically unlimited supply of advertisers in a fluid marketplace appears to be a new economic model that may insulate Google from some of the dynamics of an economy built on mass and scarcity. Google has its own economy.
Jeff Jarvis
#65. Our minds do unusual things sometimes, Tamara. When we're looking for things it takes it upon itself to go down its own route. All we can do is follow
Cecelia Ahern
#66. Your life will no doubt find its own paths. That they be good ones, and rich and expansive, that I wish for you more than I can say.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#68. In the sense of movement a boat is a living thing.
It is a companion in the night. Each boat has its own manner and character.
Travis McGee, 1985
John D. MacDonald
#69. Emotional truth is the reward of digging deeply enough to find the truth about how one really feels, but in order to convey this truth with any force, or artistry, one needs to 'create' a form of expression, and this form determines its own "genuine information".
Philip Schultz
#70. You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.
Jerry Stahl
#71. Studies have shown that an ant can carry one hundred times its own weight, but there is no known limit to the lifting power of the average tiny eighty-year-old Spanish peasant grandmother.
Terry Pratchett
#72. Somewhere in that database my name sat in its own little niche, the name of a reject, undisciplined and worthless. Just the way I liked it.
Ilona Andrews
#73. The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.
Andrew Klavan
#74. Anyone with a great product to sell should never criticize competing products. Your product should sell on its own merit. Consumers want the best of the best, not the best of a bad situation.
Zack W. Van
#75. Thy present opinion founded on understanding, and thy present conduct directed to social good, and thy present disposition of contentment with everything which happens- that is enough. Wipe out imagination: check desire: extinguish appetite: keep the ruling faculty in its own power. Among
Marcus Aurelius
#76. The way to form transcends its own destination, goes beyond the end of the way itself.
Paul Klee
#77. I find this less scandalous than beautiful: a kind of palimpsestic plagiarism that moves through bodies and time, a collective song with no single origin, or whose origin has been erased
the way a star, from our earthly perspective, is often survived by its own light.
Ben Lerner
#78. THAT'S YOUTH for you; it sets its own limits without even asking if the body can take it. Yet the body always does.
Paulo Coelho
#79. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not
always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once
but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have
because history has shown us that courage can be contagious
and hope can take on a life of its own.
Michelle Obama
#80. Notable American Women is a weird nougat of a book that suggests Coetzee, Kafka, Beckett, Barthelme, O'Brien, Orwell, Paley, Borges-and none of them exactly. Finally you just have to chew it for its own private juice.
Padgett Powell
#81. By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again
and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
Mark Twain
#83. Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.
Alan W. Watts
#84. I have a lot of respect for countries where the practice of democracy is highly developed. I think, however, that each country has to have its own specific features of democracy.
Mohammed VI Of Morocco
#85. We think the Dred Scott decision is erroneous. We know the court that made it has often overruled its own decisions, and we shall do what we can to have it overrule this.
Abraham Lincoln
#86. My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good? ...
Brent Weeks
#87. Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
John Henry Newman
#88. There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?
Gustave Eiffel
#90. A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health.
Roger Scruton
#91. He is forbidden to love as a man. Passion must find its own way out. Claws tear the heart. Love is the most merciless of gods. Something so powerful will not be stopped, only turned, often to violence. I can almost understand this man.
Rebecca Ashe
#92. My phone buzzed so frequently it seemed to have an animal life of its own.
Zadie Smith
#93. No tribe unites with another of its own free will.
Arthur Keith
#94. By the time Genghis Khan arrived to give his newest subjects their religious freedom, after first brutalizing them into submission, Darjmainia had developed its own very complex, partially amalgamated collection of sacred stories
Tony McMillen
#95. A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
Julia McNair Wright
#96. Learning is not a race, All wisdom comes at its own pace, Not through practice or praise, But like a blessing, with the guru's grace. The
Chandrika
#97. The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
Arnold J. Toynbee
#98. In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.
Ryan Holiday
#99. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
Thomas Merton
#100. Everyone has their own personality, its own character, and if he respects that, everything would finally fall over for good only.
Irving Stone
