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Owning Quotes (page 152)

The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. William Golding
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own. Bill Watterson
The waves smash against rocks, boulder thunders upon bolder. Granite men grind one another, leaving their clean sand to floor the ocean.The alternative would be for the republic to breed up a race of men who could work together without growing violent: men more interested in getting somewhere than having their own way." Haniel Long: Homestead 1892: Pittsburgh Memoranda. Haniel Long
Rudyard Kipling quote: "Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own..."
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears. Rudyard Kipling
Christopher Morley quote: "There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own..."
There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way. Christopher Morley
Human love is directed to the other person for his own sake, spiritual love loves him for Christ's sake. Therefore, human love seeks direct contact with the other person; it loves him not as a free person but as one whom it binds to itself. It wants to gain, to capture by every means; it uses force. It desires to be irresistible, to rule. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Carl Hiaasen quote: "In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage..."
In his own mind, it was never a matter of courage. But courage it was. Carl Hiaasen
W. H. Auden quote: "Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't..."
Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size. W. H. Auden
Alone among unsympathetic companions, I hold certain views and standards timidly, half ashamed to avow them and half doubtful if they can after all be right. Put me back among my Friends and in half an hour - in ten minutes - these same views and standards become once more indisputable. The opinion of this little circle, while I am in it, outweighs that of a thousand outsiders: as Friendship strengthens, it will do this even when my Friends are far away. For we all wish to be judged by our... C. S. Lewis
It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted themselves and respected themselves as individuals, because they knew beyond doubt that they were valuable and potential moral units- because of this they could give God their own courage and dignity and then receive it back. Such things have disappeared perhaps because men do not trust... John Steinbeck
It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Michel de Montaigne quote: "I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far..."
I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed none but my own. Michel de Montaigne
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope
Joseph Campbell quote: "You become mature when you become the authority of your own life."
You become mature when you become the authority of your own life. Joseph Campbell
A man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face. Jorge Luis Borges

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