My Own Quotes - Page 9

• Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me.

  John Burroughs

  Time, Fate, Hands

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: The light of day. 12. Literary values and other papers”

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• I feel that it is no less interesting to be a trainer than to play oneself. I even take greater delight in the tournament successes of my lads than I do in my own.

  Mark Dvoretsky

  Play, Interesting, Delight

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• I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.

  Satyajit Ray

  Writing, Hobbies, Stories

  Satyajit Ray, Bert Cardullo (2007). “Satyajit Ray: Interviews”, p.96, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving, Home, Careers

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• When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Light, Soul, Brain

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• Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

  Paul Vixie

  Thinking, Acronyms, Obscure

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• I've never felt that way. I've never felt like a looser. You can't get what you want if you feel like it's you against the world. You'll never get anywhere with negativity. I make my own opportunities I don't feel like everything is against me.

  Zacky Vengeance

  Opportunity, Negativity, World

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• I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Writing, Flaws

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• I have no way of portraying the lives of others. I portray my own.

  Jan Saudek

  Way, Portraying, Lives Of Others

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• I played on an all-boys team in the 8th grade, but they wouldnt throw me the ball even though I was on their team. One day I stole the ball from my own teammate and I made a basket. From that point on, everyone yelled Give the ball to the girl! I was the only girl on the whole league!

  Lisa Leslie

  Girl, Team, Boys

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• It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Hurt, Sins Not, Choices

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.300, Moody Publishers

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• It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Beautiful, Memories, Spring

  Derrick Belanger, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “A Study in Terror: Volume 1: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Revolutionary Stories of Fear and the Supernatural”, p.203, Andrews UK Limited

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• When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.

  Michael A. Healy

  Military, Responsibility, Men

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• To have control of my own mind... to go with dignity is less terryfying. When I look at both options I have to die, I feel this is far more humane.

  Brittany Maynard

  Emotional, Mind, Looks

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• I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope.

  William Walsh

  Hope, Expectations, Despair

  'Song: Of All the Torments'

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• Putting out my album on my own label has been a great experience for me. It's been very inspiring. It's like a new start for me and having all this creative freedom is so liberating and exciting.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Inspiring, Creative, Albums

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• Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.

  Salvatore Quasimodo

  Movement, Firsts, Poetic

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• My own view, there is a need for and a demonstrated need for more journalism now than there ever has been.

  Jim Lehrer

  Views, Needs, Literature

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

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• I am part of the sun as my eye is part of me. That I am part of the earth my feet know perfectly, and my blood is part of the sea. My soul knows that I am part of the human race, my soul is an organic part of the great human race, as my spirit is part of my nation. In my own very self, I am part of my family.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Family, Eye, Race

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.149, Cambridge University Press

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• This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.

  Josiah Royce

  Fashion, Views, Swag

  Josiah Royce (1900). “The Spirit of Modern Philosophy: An Essay in the Form of Lectures”, p.351, Courier Corporation

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• I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one out of sleep; and the voice of the Lord will shake terribly the earth.

  Joanna Southcott

  Sleep, Voice, Earth

  Joanna Southcott (1813). “Copies of letters sent to the clergy of Exeter. 1813. A communication sent in a letter to the Reverend Mr. P. in 1797. [1814] A dispute between the woman and the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. The answer of the Lord to the powers of darkness. 2d ed. 1813. A caution and instruction to the sealed. 1807. A warning to the world. [1804] The strange effects of faith. 2d ed. 1801”

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• I came together with younger musicians and tried to pass on my own experiences. In the process, I always tried to maintain my curiosity and spontaneity.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  Curiosity, Together, Musician

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• I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.

  Samantha Mumba

  Home, Space, People

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• I found it liberating of necessity to devise my own style and my own tactics and to look for a voice on the instrument because there weren't really any that impacted strongly on me.

  Steve Swallow

  Voice, Style, Looks

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• My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world.

  Emily Watson

  Relationship, Husband, Seductive

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