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Owning Quotes (page 92)

Daniel Defoe quote: "He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward..."
He that hath truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward if he is afraid to own it because fo other mens's opinions. Daniel Defoe
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a... Bertrand Russell
A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful. Laurell K. Hamilton
From the earliest times the Welsh have been looked upon as an unclean people. It is thus that they have preserved their racial integrity. Their sons and daughters rarely mate with humankind except their own blood relations. Evelyn Waugh
Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind. William James
Kurt Cobain quote: "I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own."
I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. Kurt Cobain
Tom Hiddleston quote: "Every villain is a hero in his own mind."
Every villain is a hero in his own mind. Tom Hiddleston
You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day. Umberto Eco
The images I had were of people being driven mad by living in the city. Images of parents who were so hungry and unfulfilled that they ate their own children. Bret Easton Ellis
The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small... Helen Keller
Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I hate to complain...No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. Abigail Adams
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. George Orwell
Michael Ondaatje quote: "We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders."
We own the country we grow up in, or we are aliens and invaders. Michael Ondaatje
George Eliot quote: "Aye, aye, that's the way wi' thee: thee allays makes a peck o'..."
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

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