Our Own Quotes
4496 quotes by 2634 authors
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
— Karen Armstrong
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
— David Attenborough
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Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
— Margaret Atwood
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
— Jane Austen
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we…
— Paul Auster
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand and protect nature's…
— Diane Ackerman
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We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
— Diane Ackerman
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right in his own…
— Michele Bachmann
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It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
— Ansel Adams
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We are starting off with our own different characters and our own laws and everything, looking at Bruce Wayne and how he came to be…
— Christian Bale
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Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
— Alan Ball
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Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother!
— Honore de Balzac
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But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?
— Amelia Barr
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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
— Martha Beck
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A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to…
— Mortimer Adler
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