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Own Quotes by Cormac McCarthy
- The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way.…
- In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms,…
- What do you believe? I believe that the last and the first suffer equally. Pari passu. Equally? It is not alone in the dark of…
- The road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding…
- If a man's at odds to know his own mind it's because he hasn't got aught but his mind to know it with.
- You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
- A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
- For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he…
- Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again…
- But I didn't know what to say to him. What do you say to a man that by his own admission has no soul? Why…
- The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in…
- If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained…
- The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
- Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do. He said that…
- You give up the world line by line. Stoically. And then one day you realize that your courage is farcical. It doesn't mean anything. You've…
- Each man is the bard of his own existence.
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov