Own Quotes

Every era casts cancer in its own image.

– Siddhartha Mukherjee

The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.

– Stendhal

I already own more than any human being needs.

– Stanley Marcus

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan’s image.

– Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

– Sophocles

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

– Spike Jonze

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people’s weaknesses.

– William Hazlitt

I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

– Tom T. Hall

What I like about the ‘Underworld’ thing is that it’s a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message.

– Theo James

A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism.

– Salvatore Quasimodo

I’ve been banned from cutting my own fringe.

– Suki Waterhouse

When I was a little boy, I rode, but I didn’t own horses.

– Viggo Mortensen

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

– Thomas Jefferson

I’m Thalia on my own.

– Thalia

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

– Salvatore Quasimodo