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Owning Quotes (page 201)

Carl Jung quote: "To make what fate intends for me my own intention"
To make what fate intends for me my own intention Carl Jung
There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens. Patricia Highsmith
Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different. Jane Austen
Stretching one arm behind him, the man passed his hand over the horse's coat, his own skin transformed, or skin which had transformed into him. ("The Centaur") Jose Saramago
Philosophy which does not seek to impose upon the world its own conceptions of good and evil is not only more likely to achieve truth, but is also the outcome of a higher ethical standpoint than one which, like evolutionism and most traditional systems, is perpetually appraising the universe and seeking to find in it an embodiment of present ideals. Bertrand Russell
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it. Joseph Heller
His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world’s turnings will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man’s will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay. Cormac McCarthy
Movies, after all, are only an illusion of motion comprised of thousands of still photographs. The imagination, however, moves with its own tidal flow. Stephen King
Stephenie Meyer quote: "...humankind's limited scopeof mercy was reserved for their own."
...humankind's limited scopeof mercy was reserved for their own. Stephenie Meyer
Richard Brautigan quote: "Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing."
Burn all the maps to your body. I'm not here of my own choosing. Richard Brautigan
England's civil war had ended in a consensus as the English discovered that they hated foreigners more than they hated their own countrymen. Len Deighton
He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I suppose, that he wanted her body to want his. It would have been beneath his intellectual dignity to admit that he also wanted her soul to like his own soul. Hugh MacLennan
Jorge Luis Borges quote: "Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough,..."
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. Jorge Luis Borges
Brian Aldiss quote: "Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between..."
Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. Brian Aldiss
...the representation of human character and personality remains always the supreme literary value, whether in drama, lyric or narrative. I am naive enough to read incessantly because I cannot, on my own, get to know enough people profoundly enough. Harold Bloom

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