My Own Quotes - Page 32

• I sought them far and found them, The sure, the straight, the brave, The hearts I lost my own to, The souls I could not save They braced their belts about them, They crossed in ships the sea, They sought and found six feet of ground, And there they died for me.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Sea, Feet

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.134, Delphi Classics

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• I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

  Victor Hugo

  Soul, World, My Own Life

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• It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of the soul, the bird of desire. It is possible I avoided learning the names of composers and their music the better to close my eyes and listen to the mystery of all music as an ocean. It may be I have not learned dates in history in order to reach the essence of timelessness. It may be I never learned geography the better to map my own routes and discover my own lands. The unknown was my compass. The unknown was my encyclopedia. The unnamed was my science and progress.

  Anais Nin

  Ocean, Eye, Order

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• What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality, It's an area that I'm curious about, and I'm researching it to see if there's a photographic essay in it for me. If images don't start to come, I'll go to something else.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Curious, Mortality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Some parents have difficulty expressing their love physically or vocally. I do not ever recall my own father using the words, "Son, I love you," but he showed it in a thousand ways which were more eloquent than words. He rarely missed a practice, a game, a race, or any activity in which his sons participated.

  James E. Faust

  Love, Father, Son

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• I have started my own foundation. It's called Follow Your Art. It's at its infancy but my goal is to mentor teenage girls through one of the most difficult times in their lives.

  Nadine Velazquez

  Girl, Art, Teenage

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• I love being married. I was single for a long time, and I just got so sick of finishing my own sentences.

  Brian Kiley

  Inspirational, Funny, Humor

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• I'd rather live precariously in my own office than comfortably in somebody else's.

  Peter Mayle

  Writing, Office

  Peter Mayle (1992). “Acquired tastes”, Bantam

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• I found out from my own experience that the best way to involve my daughter, Joanna, in sports is to participate with her. Recently, a mother asked me how I got my children to swim laps. The truth is, I've never asked my children to do laps. They see me do laps and want to do it with me. Parental participation is one way.

  Donna de Varona

  Leadership, Sports, Daughter

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• I do not believe that there is any secret or single formula for success, but there are common threads of thought and action that characterize the successful people that I have been fortunate enough to know and observe. I do know, from my own experience, that our chance of succeeding is much greater when we organize and take charge of our lives. When we are willing to make decisions, we aggressively pursue those things in life that are important to us.

  Merlin Olsen

  Leadership, Sports, Believe

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• Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

  Waylon Jennings

  Records, Produce, Deals

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• I've had my own personal stalker. I would get nude drawings of my body with a knife and a message saying 'I'm watching you' and 'I'm going to get you.'

  Erin Gray

  Knives, Drawing, Body

  "Conventions: Another day at the office for celebs" by Suzanne Kelly, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I think about the audience in the sense that I serve as my own audience. I have to please myself the way, if I saw the movie in a theater, I would be pleased. Do I think about catering to an audience? No.

  Shane Black

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "The Two Hollywoods: The Screenwriters; Shane Black; Harmony Korine". www.nytimes.com. November 16, 1997.

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• It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

  Jackson Browne

  Years, Fifteen, More Money

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• My forays into trying to date girls my own age from the school I went to were all pretty tortured.

  Jackson Browne

  Girl, School, Age

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• I don't know why men are so fascinated with television and I think it has something to do with - if I may judge from my own father, who used to sit and stare at the TV while my mother was speaking to him - I think that's a man's way of tuning out.

  Garry Shandling

  Mother, Father, Men

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• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  Eddie Vedder

  Writing, Choices, World

  "Q&A: Penn, Vedder go where the 'Wild' things are". Interview with Jonathan Cohen, www.reuters.com. October 27, 2007.

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• Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Brother, Children, War

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  Interview With David Attwell, www.dn.se. August 12, 2008.

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• I tend to resist invitations to interpret my own fiction.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Fiction, Invitations

  Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• Self-education is a continuing source of pleasure to me, for the more I know, the fuller my life is and the better I appreciate my own existence

  Isaac Asimov

  Self, Appreciate, Life Is

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• I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Believe, Mean

  1818 Persuasion, ch.23.

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• I feel calm when I'm on my own.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Calm, Feels

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• I want to be in control of my own destiny.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Destiny, Want

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• I can't get excited by my own music. It's impossible.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Impossible, Excited, I Can

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