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Owning It Quotes (page 26)

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Victor Hugo quote: "It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his..."
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape. Victor Hugo
...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated. Jorge Amado
it's what makes you grow up to have younguns and be a sho-nuff mammy all your own ... . A man ain't but trouble, just breath and britches and trouble Margaret Walker
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub. Thomas More
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and, when the wind turns against us, always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds, or to blame someone else for our mistakes. Paulo Coelho
It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own. Vita Sackville-West
Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. Use your memory! Use your memory! It is those bitter seeds alone which might sprout and grow someday. Look around you - there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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
Annie Dillard quote: "It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our..."
It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave. Annie Dillard
It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings? much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth. George Eliot
It's all right, darling. I'll finish the financial report on my own. I can think clearly before sex and stay awake afterwards. That's one of the nice things about being a woman. Barbara Taylor Bradford
It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply." God actually rises up storms of conflict in relationships at times in order to accomplish that deeper work in our character. We cannot love our enemies in our own strength. This is graduate-level grace. Are you willing to enter this school? Are you willing to take the test? If you pass, you can expect to be elevated to a new level in the Kingdom. For He brings us through these tests as preparation for greater... Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible. Marcus Aurelius
It all goes back and back," Tyrion thought, "to our mothers and fathers and theirs before them. We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance in our steads. George R. R. Martin

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