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My Own Quotes (page 87)

Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized. Henry David Thoreau
I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's motives. Elaine Dundy
Tom Waits quote: "Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my..."
Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own... Tom Waits
To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone. Virginia Woolf
Anton Chekhov quote: "I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered,..."
I have no will of my own. Never did. Limp and lily-livered, I always obey - is it possible that's attractive to women? Anton Chekhov
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'. Andy Warhol
Rumi quote: "I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that..."
I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home. Rumi
If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay. Peter S. Beagle
Loren Eiseley quote: "I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us"
I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us Loren Eiseley
Michel de Montaigne quote: "I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what..."
I care not so much what I am in the opinion of others, as what I am in my own. Michel de Montaigne
Out of the blue, Paul reported feeling bouts of calm euphoria, a mystical sense of all's-right-with-his-life-and-the-universe, a bright future in sight. ... I knew well the state of vigorous calm he meant, a frequent visitor throughout my own life. [p. 290] Diane Ackerman
I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation. Martin Luther
Jeanette Winterson quote: "It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs..."
It's why I am a writer...To avoid the narrow mesh of Mrs Winterson's story I had to be able to tell my own. Jeanette Winterson
I'll put a bullet through my own brain. Let alone wait for stark to do it. Your sister will drive me to it, Howard. No offense. Meg Cabot
Nikki Giovanni quote: "daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told..."
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm Nikki Giovanni

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