Top 100 Own The Quotes
#1. Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.
John Green
#2. We also live in strange places: each in a universe of our own. The people with whom we populate our universes are the shadows of whole other universes intersecting with our own.
Douglas Adams
#3. When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.
Mickey Gilley
#4. Once I get the ball, you're at my mercy. There is nothing you can say or do about it. I own the ball.
Michael Jordan
#5. The impression I got during the research and interview process was that they are trying to own the disease and therefore own the cause which can ultimately be more profitable for some corporations and fund-raising groups.
Ravida Din
#6. We are living in a time in which movies such as 'Super Size Me' and 'An Inconvenient Truth' have made box-office history, and books such as 'No Logo' and my own, 'The Silent Takeover,' are bestsellers.
Noreena Hertz
#7. Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.
Nathaniel Branden
#8. In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.
Linus Roache
#9. And in that same way, law school breaks a mind down. Novelists, poets, and artists don't often do well in law school, but neither, necessarily, do mathematicians, logicians and scientists. The first group fails because their logic is their own; the second fails because logic is all they own.
Hanya Yanagihara
#10. Oh, she loved weddings and longed for the day she would have her own. The day when she would be kissed like that by a man who wouldn't leave her, a man who would promise to love her, to make it his mission to worship and cherish her for the rest of his life.
J.B. McGee
#11. Before is the only time you own, the only before you can trust is now, and you don't even know how long before is.
C.J. Cherryh
#12. I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.
Bill Pullman
#13. I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.
Eartha Kitt
#14. Virtue without success is a fair picture shown by an ill light; but lucky men are favorites of heaven; all own the chief, when fortune owns the cause.
John Dryden
#15. The key to your happines is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don't. If you keep saying your slippers aren't yours, then you'll die searching, you'll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
Abraham Verghese
#16. I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the post-production of the movie, and having no way to recoup because I didn't own the rights to the movie. There was no way I could see any money back on it, so any money spent was just a dead loss.
Richard Stanley
#17. I've built an 8-track studio in my house that's virtually identical to what they used at Abbey Road, and I also own the 16-track set-up that Led Zeppelin used to record 'Houses of the Holy.' I'm interested in producing, but I'm mostly recording my own stuff.
Lukas Haas
#18. Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.
Sophocles
#19. I don't think the idea of requiring these to be only sold to people who have already own the bonds, in other words, this naked position that the Germans have recently put into their financial regulation and has been discussed here. I don't think that makes any sense.
Robert F. Engle
#20. [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.
William H Gass
#21. You know what I've come to realize about you kindly rich liberals who own the world? Nothing is further from your understanding than the nature of reality.
Philip Roth
#22. To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
Hedy Lamarr
#23. The more people who own little businesses of their own, the safer our country will be, and the better off its cities and towns; for the people who have a stake in their country and their community are its best citizens.
John Hancock
#24. Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride.
Gina Greenlee
#25. CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.
Robert Novak
#27. People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.
Wendell Berry
#28. If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.
Edwin Lefevre
#29. A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
Frank Herbert
#30. For all the sublimity of the cause for which we fought, we surely created a Belsen of our own. The method was impersonal, but the result was equally cruel and heartless. That, I am afraid, is a sickening truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. People cheer the Bible, buy the Bible, give the Bible, own the Bible - they just don't actually read the Bible.
John Ortberg
#32. We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
Warren Spector
#33. I want to own the New York Jets, that's what I want. And I absolutely believe I am going to own the Jets.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#34. When the bubble of ignorance bursts the self realizes its oneness with the indivisible Self. Words that proceed from the Source of Truth have real meaning. But when men speakthese words as their own, the words become meaningless.
Meher Baba
#35. Those years in a man's twenties when he shrugs off the shelter of youth and before he has bothered to erect his own. The tent-less years. The bright and blinding years in which men wander as the planets do. A
Hugh Howey
#36. Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book.
John Baxter
#37. I needed somebody without any preconceived ideas. But I also needed somebody with a mind of her own." The contradictory qualities we seek in that elusive perfect lover. Strength and vulnerability, in equal measures.
Jeffery Deaver
#38. Parents own the children, and it is an issue of freedom and public health.
Rand Paul
#39. They want to own the world, but it seems you already own a people.
Robert Jordan
#40. Whistle a birdcall. The mockingjay cocks its head and whistles the call right back at me. Then, to my surprise, Pollux whistles a few notes of his own. The bird answers him immediately.
Suzanne Collins
#41. Your stuff does not own the home; either control your belongings, or they will control you.
Janet Morris
#42. In America, if you are a landowner, you own the minerals vertically underneath your plot. So if there is shale, you get a share.
Jim Ratcliffe
#43. The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader
#44. What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
Orson Scott Card
#45. I've owned a thousand houses that I've never built," she said. "Never had the money to build. Couldn't have used if I had had the money. Never really wanted to build maybe. But I still own the houses."
Karen Holmes in From Here To Eternity
James Jones
#46. Once upon a time, we were cynics facing the world alone. Our story changed into two warrior cynics facing the world together.
Now, we own the happily ever after and we refuse to let that bitch go.
Monica Murphy
#47. I tell myself it does not matter what one reads
favorite authors, particular themes
as long as we read something. It is not even important to own the books.
Helen Simonson
#48. Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with a flick of a pen they will create enough to buy it back.
Josiah Stamp
#49. One of the few things I've learned is that humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way.
Robert A. Heinlein
#50. The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth.
Joey Ramone
#51. If fretting was an Olympic sport, I'd own the gold medal
Lori Hatcher
#52. The more things you own, the more those things own you.
Don Dodge
#53. It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges subsist here and there, in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire but our own: The desert of the real itself.
Jean Baudrillard
#54. Over the years, there have been challenges about who can use our name. It's quite simple: A majority of people left in the band at a certain time own the name. It's not like I'm the guy who has the name under my own contract.
Chris Squire
#55. The only truth is your own. The world you see is seen by you alone. What entices you and what repels you, what strengthens you and what weakens you, is part of a pattern that no one else shares.
Marcus Buckingham
#56. The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#57. These three children own the summer. They know the wood as surely as they know the microlandscapes of their own grazed knees;put them down blindfolded in any dell or clearing and they could find their way out without putting a foot wrong.
Tana French
#58. Money doesn't grow on trees, and if it did, someone else would own the orchard.
Lewis Grizzard
#59. If you own the problem, you own the customer. If you lose the problem, you lose the customer. It's that simple.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#60. Creative entitlement doesn't mean behaving like a princess, or acting as though the world owes you anything whatsoever. No, creative entitlement simply means believing that you are allowed to be here, and that - merely by being here - you are allowed to have a voice and a vision of your own. The
Elizabeth Gilbert
#61. The body is like a companion, a friendly pet that follows one around ... One can continue to own the body and be responsible for it without identifying with it as one's identity.
David Hawkins
#62. You're my obsession, I'm your possession You own the deepest part of me You crawled into the darkness, set my monster free So scream, bleed, call out to me But never say stop, never flee
Pepper Winters
#63. I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#64. It's impossible to generalize about sexuality - even one's own. The only way to keep it pure is to keep it unspoken. Keep it out of words. Words are not where sexuality lives. Without privacy, there is no ecstasy.
Erica Jong
#65. That is the true joy of being a solo artist. I can do whatever I want. I can go wherever I want. I can show up with my guitar and my song, and it can sound a hundred different ways. That's the freedom of being on your own. The flipside is: That's you on the cover. If it sucks, it's your fault.
Jenny Lewis
#67. The same people own the media that own the White House that own the Congress that own the oil fields. They all work together to give a false view of the world to the American people.
Gore Vidal
#68. Part of the myth is that these model citizens have been given nothing by the government and have made it on their own. The American Dream is that any honest, self-disciplined, hard-working person can do the same.
George Lakoff
#69. So is that it? Will I have to live the rest of my life like this? Not doing the right thing? Not saying the right words?"
"That's your choice. You can't change the past. Ah, but the future ... you own the future." The Greenman smiled. "So, you tell me ... what choice do you want to make now?
Jonathan Maberry
#70. I honestly never dreamed at the time that I would one day own the Starbucks and or be in a position where we would have more than 10,000 stores around the world. It has just been an incredible journey for all of us.
Howard Schultz
#71. Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I'll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?
Jonathan Edwards
#72. On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.
Charlie Puth
#73. No single man can change the destiny of the world because the world cannot transform itself on its own. The world can only transform itself collectively.
David Ssembajjo
#75. In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#76. If you are uncomfortable meeting people on your own, the perfect way to do it is to volunteer to help greet those who arrive. This way, you have a purposeful task that is meeting people. Be sure to wear your name tag (on the right side of your body, please) and have business cards at the ready.
Beth Ramsay
#77. At the age of 12 my ambition was to become a gangster. To be a wiseguy. Being a wiseguy was better than being President of the United States. To be a wiseguy was to own the world.
Henry Hill
#78. You can buy gold that is bright as the sun and diamonds as pale as the moon. But you cannot buy the sun. You cannot own the moon. II
David Gemmell
#79. But most often she watched the candles as if their outcome held her own, the flames almost extinguishing themselves, but, by some greed of oxygen, persisting.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#80. A stage set should not make a pretty picture of its own. The empty stage should look formal and pleasing, but should seem to be waiting for the action to complete it; it should not hold definite significance in itself.
G. Wilson Knight
#81. The more things you own, the more things you need to keep you comfortable.
Norman Mailer
#82. The governing ideal was not merely to keep up with the Joneses, but to be the Joneses - to own the same model of car or dishwasher or lawn mower.
Chris Anderson
#83. treat you like a criminal," he said, showing a slide of an inmate in striped prison garb. Then a slide of Bob Dylan came on the screen. "People want to own the music they love.
Walter Isaacson
#84. Netscape brought the Internet alive with the browser. They made the Internet so that Grandma could use it, and her grandchildren could use it. The second thing that Netscape did was commercialize a set of open transmission protocols so that no company could own the Net.
Thomas Friedman
#85. Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen King
#86. Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#87. It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#88. If you want to own the life, you must first own the death! To own the death, you must understand it! To understand it, you must know to think like the death!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
Lisa Carey
#90. There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
Mark Twain
#91. I started in the supermarket business in the early '70s. And by '75, '76, I realized you don't have a business unless you own the real estate.
John Catsimatidis
#92. I do whatever I do. I go to the club. I work on material. While other people are sleeping, I'm awake. I always liked that. I like being able to drive when there's no traffic. It's almost like you own the street at night.
Andrew Dice Clay
#93. The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
Rand Paul
#94. When you trust your television
What you get is what you got
Cause when they own the information, oh
They can bend it all they want.
John Mayer
#95. The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.
Sarah Ferguson
#96. A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#97. I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
Alan Dershowitz
#98. I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick
#99. To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute yourself, or moderate yourself, or repress your proneness to get excited or ecstatic or angry or emotionally involved ... that day, you die as a writer.
Dwight V. Swain
#100. Brands no longer own their message. They can try to control it, but they do not own it. Today, consumers own the message. What they say about a brand carries more weight than what the brand says about itself.
Kim Garst
