My Own Quotes - Page 18

• I did find some time to go to a record store and check out "Headstrong" actually in the racks. It was pretty cool; I never thought I'd see my own CD sitting there with everyone else's. I made my Mom take lots of pics!

  Ashley Tisdale

  Mom, Cds, Sitting

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• I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

  Margaret Fuller

  Knowing, America, People

  Quoted in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, ed. Ralph Waldo Emerson,William Henry Channing, and James Freeman Clarke (1852)

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• I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Climbing, Views

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He wrote: "For I have found in my own experience that it is of no small benefit, when you lie in bed in the dark, to recall in imagination, one after another, the outlines of the form you have been studying." He often awoke to find his problems solved. Da Vinci would often stand silent and motionless before a painting for hours, without using his brush, as though waiting for spiritual guidance.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Spiritual, Lying, Dark

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• When I was six or seven years old, growing up in Pittsburgh, I used to take a precious penny of my own and hide it for someone else to find. I was greatly excited at the thought of the first lucky passerby who would receive a gift in this way, regardless of merit, a free gift from the universe. . . . I've been thinking about seeing. There are lots of things to see, unwrapped gifts and free surprises. The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside from a generous hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Growing Up, Thinking, Hands

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• I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

  Catherine McCormack

  Tired, Voice, Listening

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

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• No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.

  Horatio Dresser

  Life, Wise, World

  "The Power of Silence: An Interpretation of Life in Its Relation to Health and Happiness".

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• Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up. If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other's faults and burdens. If we love enough, we are going to light that fire in the hearts of others. And it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.

  Dorothy Day

  Love, Heart, Sacrifice

  "On Pilgrimage".

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• But after he was pleased to reveal himself to me I did presently, like Abraham, run to Hagar. And after that he did let me see the atheism of my own heart, for which I begged of the Lord that it might not remain in my heart.

  Anne Hutchinson

  Running, Heart, Atheism

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• While I've found many of the religious shows I've viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I've never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet - turning off the TV completely.

  Bill Hicks

  Religious, Years, Freedom Of Speech

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• In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views-I just didn't think about religion.

  Will Schwalbe

  Mom, Atheist, Believe

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.85, Vintage

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• I never wavered in my certainty that God did not exist. I was simply liberated by the thought that there might be a way to engage with religion without having to subscribe to its supernatural content - a way, to put it in more abstract terms, to think about Fathers without upsetting my respectful memory of my own father. I recognized that my continuing resistance to theories of an afterlife or of heavenly residents was no justification for giving up on the music, buildings, prayers, rituals, feasts, shrines, pilgrimages, communal meals and illustrated manuscripts of the faiths.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, Giving Up, Memories

  "Katie Antoniou interviews Alain de Botton on his new book 'Religion for Atheists'". Interview with Katie Antoniou, www.run-riot.com. January 24, 2012.

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• Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Celebrate

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• With reference to the narrative of events, far from permitting myself to derive it from the first source that came to hand, I did not even trust my own impressions, but it rests partly on what I saw myself, partly on what others saw for me, the accuracy of the report always being tried by the most severe and detailed tests possible. My conclusions have cost me some labour from the want of coincidence between accounts of the same occurrences by different eye-witnesses, arising sometimes from imperfect memory, sometimes from undue partiality for one side or the other.

  Thucydides

  Memories, Eye, Hands

  "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.

  Patrice Leconte

  Cinema, Affection, Feels

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• I play loud onstage for my own benefit as I like. But I'm not too fond of the P.A. either.

  Kerry King

  Play, Benefits, Affection

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• I don't like to sit and bask in my own awards. Awards represent artistic death to me.

  Paula Cole

  Awards, Artistic

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• I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before I needed blue.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Believe, Black And White

  Georgia O'Keeffe (1977). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, Viking Pr

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• I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

  Graham Nash

  Photography, Years, Photographer

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• When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.

  Ralph Thomas Walker

  Character, Pride, Self

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• I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, "Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?" but as to bodily health, no one says, "Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed." How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it.

  Saint Augustine

  Healing, Echoes, Soul

  "The Confessions of St. Augustine".

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• Being chronically shy I needed to create a persona for myself and be involved with a band where I could be ruler of my own kingdom. Then Pulp became hugely popular and I lost control of it, which is when it all went wrong.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Shy, Band, Kingdoms

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• I thank the Father that His Only Begotten Son did not say in defiant protest at Calvary, "My body is my own!" I stand in admiration of women today who resist the "fashion of abortion, by refusing to make the sacred womb a tomb!"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fashion, Father, Son

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• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  Ina Garten

  Party, Inspiration, Use

  Interview with Lauren Salkeld, www.epicurious.com.

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• When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Eye, Science

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