My Own Quotes - Page 16

• My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Patriotism, Firsts

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.244, Algora Publishing

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• I believe that God plays this enormous role in my life. And I believe that it's my obligation to give back and to follow the rules that were set. And it also gives me an enormous sense of my own place.

  Ronald Perelman

  God, Believe, Play

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• The funny thing about making this record and being away from the girls and on my own in LA is that it allowed me to reflect on how much we've accomplished.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Girl, Funny Things, Records

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• I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.

  Sophia Loren

  Life, Blessed, Destiny

  "Sophia, Living and Loving: Her Own Story". Book by A. E. Hotchner, 1979.

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• It feels a little silly to annotate a game in which I didn't make a single move on my own, just following my preparation all the way. [...] A pretty finale. I was obviously hoping for the beauty prize sacrificing both my rooks and all, but OK, Im [sic] afraid requirements are one makes a move of his own for that it seems. Something I could avoid doing in the last five rounds in Dresden. Silly game, this chess.

  Jan Gustafsson

  Silly, Moving, Sacrifice

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.

  Milan Kundera

  Courage, Character, Discovery

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• The only way I have ever understood, broken free, emerged, healed, forgiven, flourished, and grown powerful is by asking the hardest questions and then living into the answers through opening up to my own terror and transmuting it into creativity. I have gotten nowhere by retreating into hand-me-down sureties or resisting the tensions that truth ignited.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Powerful, Creativity, Hands

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• I love my snaggle fangs. They give me character and character is sexy. People comment, but the only person who ever told me to fix them was my mom ... I just went my own way, like daughters do.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Mom, Daughter, Sexy

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• I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person, and I fail.

  Julian Casablancas

  Mean, Eye, Thinking

  "'Julian kisses my neck seven times then lunges for my lips'". Interview with Neil Strauss, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2003.

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• The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?

  Bruce Chatwin

  Running, Children, Book

  Bruce Chatwin (1997). “Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989”, p.11, Penguin

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• Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.

  Nick Flynn

  Father, Moving, Men

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• In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne.

  Ellen G. White

  Writing, Ideas, Light

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Miscellaneous Periodical Articles - Book II of III”, p.365, Lulu Press, Inc

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• No one had ever done a swimming movie before so we just made it up as we went along. I ad-libbed all my own underwater movements.

  Esther Williams

  Swimming, Underwater, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A great percentage of the mistakes I discovered in
  my own work, could be attributed to testimonies.

  Raul Hilberg

  Mistake, Percentages, Testimony

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• The best way I have ever found to fill that hole is not to seek external motivations to fill the emptiness, but to ignite the internal fire that will never go out. To light up my own inner sky.

  James Altucher

  Motivation, Fire, Light

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• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'

  Earl Weaver

  Horse, Dragons, Years

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• I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.

  James McBride

  Kids, Self, Toys

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• If there's one thing I don't look for in a maid, it's discretion. Except with my own secrets, of course.

  Julian Fellowes

  Secret, Looks, Maids

  "Gosford Park". www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.

  Eric Avery

  Bucks, Way, Firsts

  "Eric Avery joins Addiction for NME Awards" by Jonathan Cohen, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 16, 2008.

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• I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

  Nigel Kneale

  Would Be, Stories, Television

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• I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.

  Lynn Freed

  Children, Earth, Matter

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• I made clothes because I was looking for something that didn't exist. I had to try to create my own world.

  Thierry Mugler

  Clothes, Trying, World

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• I'd rather have 1% of the effort of 100 men than 100% of my own effort.

  J. Paul Getty

  Funny, Teamwork, Humorous

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• I have my own opinion that there is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified, unless we preach what nowadays is called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Nicknames, Opinion, Christ

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.64, Barbour Publishing

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