Own Words Quotes

#1. Be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

Jinnul Jr.

#2. Sometimes in life the accuser can have you so convinced that you are inadequate that he doesn't even have to say it anymore - you start saying it yourself. With your own words you can destroy your own destiny.

Toure Roberts

#3. be cleansed of that which is injurious to man and detracteth from his high station - among which is to take undue pleasure in one's own words and deeds, notwithstanding their unworthiness. True

Bahai Pubishing

#4. If you believe in the power of your own words, you don't need to quote others.

David Nicol

#5. 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

#6. Sometimes you completely forget your own works, your own poems, and your own words, but others remember them line by line, word for word! That is the greatest present you can ever have for your works!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#7. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. 'I will take the Ring,' he said, 'though I do not know the way.' Elrond

J.R.R. Tolkien

#8. By the time I hit college, my secret shame was the reason I was an actor was my own words sort of dried up. I stopped writing. I stopped being able to form my own vision. That's actually what my first feature is about - looking back at two different selves.

Lynn Shelton

#9. Don't be afraid," I said, "We belong together."
I was immediatly overcome by the truth of my own words.

Stephenie Meyer

#10. I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Winston Churchill

#11. Hang yourself, poet, in your own words.
Otherwise, you are dead.

Langston Hughes

#12. Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times ... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.

Glenn Greenwald

#14. Dostoevsky does not believe his own words, and he is trying to replace a lack of faith with "feeling" and eloquence.

Lev Shestov

#15. Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Cofer Black

#16. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we are all "beach men" and that "the sand"--I am quoting his own words-- keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moment

Patrick Modiano

#17. One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

Winston Churchill

#18. When the world is to come to it's final destruction the powerful will always reason of peaceful nuclear programs which in my own words is a shameful chapter to start when the world has already been destroyed.

Auliq Ice

#19. No narrative that tells the facts of a man's life in the man's own words can be uninteresting.

Mark Twain

#20. You sometimes had to force people to say things they would rather not articulate, just so they could hear their own words. It was interesting the way people could know things and not know them at the same time. Denial, he said, was like a thick stone wall.

Nell Freudenberger

#21. Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.

Victoria Secunda

#22. Melbourne said I'll put it in my own words: the time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right - " "What

Harper Lee

#23. I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

Helio Castroneves

#24. Paulo represented for those of us who are committed to imagine a world, in his own words, that is less ugly, more beautiful, less discriminatory, more democratic, less dehumanizing, and more humane.

Paulo Freire

#25. The world believes it was built by love but reading Shah Jahan's own words on the Taj, one could say it was grief that built the Taj Mahal and it was sorrow that saw it through sixteen years till completion.

Aysha Taryam

#26. Due to previous lack of systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms, many subjects experience the SCID-D as their first opportunity to describe their symptoms in their own words to a receptive listener.

Marlene Steinberg

#27. My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

Laozi

#28. More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

Andrew Weil

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

Auliq Ice

#30. I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words.

Henri Nouwen

#31. Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.

Sarah Kay

#32. Once, he'd dreamed of experimental fusions, that he would be the one to merge folk harps with anime. Now he saw the incommensurability. In his own words: matter and antimatter. The end of the world.

Karen Joy Fowler

#33. We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha's own words must be rejected.

Dalai Lama XIV

#34. Teachers're always using that "in your own words." I hate that. Authors knit their sentences tight. It's their job. Why make us unpick them, just to put it back together more shonkily? How're you s'posed to say Kapellmeister if you can't say Kapellmeister?

David Mitchell

#35. It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

William E. Gladstone

#36. With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.

Auliq Ice

#37. Sure, sometimes you gotta let things go, but other times you can't till you set things right. And I know darn well it ain't worth arguing with a preacher. The only truths they believe are their own words.

Erin Bowman

#38. What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.

Karl Rahner

#39. In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Hugh Hefner

#40. Donald Trump threatened to file a defamation suit against me for running a TV ad that consisted only entirely of his own words on national television. Now, that's really a remarkable theory, that it is defamation to show people what he said on national TV. I think the voters are smarter than that.

Ted Cruz

#41. We have to take ownership for our words. Words are powerful. They can be devastating. If your words carry hate--if they shame others, if they make them doubt that they are loved--Hannah, you don't want to own words like that.

Kelly Quindlen

#42. If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants.

Mas Oyama

#43. His fingers trace letters on my flesh. He's handing me back my own words. This is real

Autumn Doughton

#44. Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

Ayn Rand

#45. You were upset. I don't want you feeling forced into anything, he pressed on, horrified at his own words. Mental. Since when did he let chivalry get in the way of a blowjob? Talk about boycotting oneself, jeez.

Elle Aycart

#46. I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.

Kelly Masterson

#47. Sorry Pa, I managed to finally say, choking on my own words. It was the hardest apology I have ever made in my life.
I truly meant it. But I had no words left to convey its depth.

Preeti Shenoy

#48. If we aren't trustworthy to our own words
and values, why should we expect others to trust us with their resources, let alone with their lives?

Assegid Habtewold

#49. To be discreet, '"he looked up to glare at Aethelflaed, "'chaste! Keepers of the home! Good! Obedient to their husbands!' Those are God's own words! That is what God demands of a woman! To be discreet, to be chaste, to be home-keepers, to be obedient! God spoke to us!

Bernard Cornwell

#50. I mean, were you born a freak?" I asked. I flinched at my own words. I didn't mean to be rude it just came out that way. The girl rolled her eyes to me. "I don't know. Were you born stupid?" Okay, maybe I deserved that. "Yeah, probably.

Dinah Katt

#51. Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words.

Steve Maraboli

#52. Never be ashamed to speak your mind. Sometimes the honesty of your own words is all you can count on.

Gena D. Lutz

#53. You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their life so much better. Those are kind of words that make you known to the inhabitants of eternity.

Toba Beta

#54. My own words take me by surprise and teach me what to think.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#55. The most effective way to see if you understand a concept is to first review it and they try to explain it in your own words as if you were teaching an imaginary class or a five year old.

Sahil Bora

#56. I presume that House Arryn remembers its own words," the Imp said. "As High as Honor.

George R R Martin

#57. The first audition I ever went on, I was accompanied by my mother at the instruction of my father. 'You have to learn how to take rejection if you really want to be an actor,' he said. He had to eat his own words. I got the job.

Michele Lee

#58. Giving these students, teenagers, any form of power over the use of their own words, allowing them to turn everyday raw material into some form of beauty, is a gift beyond measure.

Gloria Ng

#59. I didn't know that I was going to have to eat my own words:
- Milo

Norton Juster

#60. Gen, with his genius for languages, was often at a loss for what to say when left with only his own words.

Ann Patchett

#61. The Best Thing I love about being a writer and a poet is, I can make up my own words to fit my imagination.

Ocean Crisstopher Poet

#62. Everyone's encouraged to put things in their own words, to discover new things. So there's definitely an element of dynamic improvisation, for sure, which I think gives those scenes some of their energy, some of their electricity.

Steve Zissis

#63. Attending to your own words and ideas as well as those of others is an admirable trait in any person, but a necessity in a leader.

Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

#64. Your own words are the bricks and mortar of the dreams you want to realize.
Behind every word flows energy.

Sonia Choquette

#65. Think before you speak. Your own words can cure or curse you. The power in your tongue can spill blessings or lessons.

Bianca McCormick-Johnson

#66. Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

Auliq Ice

#67. Science, to quote your own words, is nothing else than a 'strange hankering after differences'. Her essence could not be better defined. For men of science nothing is so important as the clear definition of differences.

Hermann Hesse

#68. It is God in you that responds to God without, or affirms his own words trembling on the lips of another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#69. Leaders do not sway with the polls. Instead, they sway the polls through their own words and actions.

Bob Ehrlich

#70. It makes me angry sometimes, it's a visceral thing
how you come to despise your own words in your ears not because they aren't genuine, but because they are; because you've said them so many times, your 'principles,' your 'ideals'
and so damned little in the world has changed because of them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#71. It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Francis Bacon

#72. Oh, yes, that's right--my terms. I'm sorry, but you'll have to state clearly, for the record, in your own words, your clear-minded and sober intention to ride my dick. Actually, let me go get a witness, just to be on the safe side ...

Mercy Brown

#73. Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

Sorin Cerin

#74. It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise.

Saul Bellow

#75. Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.

Amy Neftzger

#76. I wanted my own words. But the ones I use have been dragged through I don't know how many consciences.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#77. Either Mitt Romney through his own words and his own signature was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people.

Stephanie Cutter

#78. Advocacy groups and voters are not wrong to push candidates to declare their position clearly on policy issues. That is good citizenship. Hard questions should be asked of every candidate, every politician. And those public servants should be prepared to answer, but in their own words.

Mark McKinnon

#79. A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#80. Every author loves to read his own words.

Kirk Gollwitzer

#81. You don't have to be 'adults' ... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

Natsuki Takaya

#82. Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into.

John Locke

#83. Be careful what you say, life and death truly are in your own words.

Tyler Perry

#84. Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Ann Aguirre

#85. If I'm not moved by my own words, how can I expect my readers to be?

Eliza Green

#86. I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

Roger Zelazny

#87. Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o' thy own words out o' a pint o' the Bible's

George Eliot

#88. I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

James Cromwell

#89. There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.

Christina Engela

#90. If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you ... I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.

Donalyn Miller

#91. Epictetus, the pagan philosopher, proved in his life the truth of his own words - "A man can be happy without wealth, without family, without office or honor, without health, without anything that the world seeks after.

Orison Swett Marden

#92. What have you eaten today?"
"Humble pie, my own words, and a little crow. All three taste like shit.

Rachel Vincent

#93. Unlike most fine writers, he wasn't in love with his own words.

Douglas Brinkley

#94. It was the happiest Christmas Eve he had ever spent. To quote his own words, he had a rotten Christmas.

Saki

#95. Trinidad's language is a fusion of English, African, and French, and so we have our own words and even our own dictionary. Steupse is a common local word, and it's the onomatopoeic word for the sound people make to show disapproval, or to show they are vexed, when they suck their teeth together.

Monique Roffey

#96. Part of the acting gig is when you're let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn't get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.

Jack Black

#97. At times I couldn't recognize my own words, because I was still so often afraid in my life.

Melanie Benjamin

#98. The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

Galen Rowell

#99. My own words, when I am at work on a story, I hear too as they go, in the same voice that I hear when I read in books. When I write and the sound of it comes back to my ears, then I act to make changes. I have always trusted this voice.

Eudora Welty

#100. Parents do not, indeed, live by bread alone. We feast daily on banquets of our own words.

Sarah Bird