Our Own Making Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
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We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.
— Terry Brooks
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Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own…
— Max Horkheimer
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Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a…
— Al Gore
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Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet…
— Marshall McLuhan
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Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us…
— Jared Diamond
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People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving…
— Jodee Blanco
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Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end…
— Dawna Markova
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We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too.
— Robin Hobb
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The bars on our cage are of our own making.
— Jessie Burton
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The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of…
— Thomas Merton
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We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I don’t mean fight with the power of our…
— Cressida Cowell
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All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz…
— Robin Hobb
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We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
— Jeanette Winterson
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In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.
— Stephen King
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On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. Instead we entangle ourselves in knots of our own making and struggle,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Who Wrote These Our Own Making Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Our Own Making Quotes as follows: