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Owning Quotes (page 172)

I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself? Ayn Rand
Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley. James Thurber
The old man in the beard he felt convinced was wrong. He was too busy saving his own soul. Wasn't it better to take part even in the crimes of people you loved, if it was necessary hate as they did, and if that were the end of everything suffer damnation with them rather than be saved alone? Graham Greene
George Carlin quote: "We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass."
We are a nation of sheep, and someone else owns the grass. George Carlin
Properly speaking, should any individual ever have exact, clear knowledge of his own core consciousness?"I wouldn't know," I said."Nor would we," said the scientists. Haruki Murakami
It is possible to be honest every day. It is possible to live so that others can trust us-can trust our words, our motives, and our actions. Our examples are vital to those who sit at our feet as well as those who watch from a distance. Our own constant self-improvement will become as a polar star to those within our individual spheres of influence. They will remember longer what they saw in us than what they heard from us. Our attitude, our point of view, can make a tremendous difference. Gordon B. Hinckley
Carol Shields quote: "This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting..."
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes. Thomas Jefferson
There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God. Epictetus
Thomas More quote: "If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to..."
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him. Thomas More
Khalil Gibran quote: "For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?"
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Khalil Gibran
It was amusing, in such lightness of air, that the Prince should again present himself only to speak for the Princess, so unfortunately unable again to leave home; and that Mrs Verver should as regularly figure as an embodied, a beautifully deprecating apology for her husband, who was all geniality and humility among his own treasures, but as to whom the legend had grown up that he couldn't bear, with the height of his standards and the tone of the company, in the way of sofas and cabinets,... Henry James
So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect,? What is truth? and of the affections,? What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Noel Gallagher quote: "Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their..."
Those who don't say what they mean will live and die by their own sword. Noel Gallagher
The confrontation lasted about five minutes; then the display died out as quickly as it had begun, and everyone drank his fill of the muddy water. Honor had been satisfied; each group had staked its claim to its own territory. Arthur C. Clarke

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