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Own Quotes by David Levithan
- Such a strange thing, to hold a six-year-old's hand. Especially a six-year-old you've only just met. A toddler will grab hold of your finger, and…
- Here’s what I know about the realm of possibility— it is always expanding, it is never what you think it is. Everything around us was…
- For the Jesus Revolutionaries, the answer was clear: Jesus would not be out waging "preventative" wars. Jesus would not be withholding medicine from people who…
- He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
- I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.
- I mean, what if love isn't a yes-or-no question? It's not either you're in love or you're not. I mean, aren't there different levels? And…
- I want my own books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.
- Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could…
- the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.
- Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.
- I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go…
- healthy, adj. There are times when I'm alone that I think, This is it. This is actually the natural state. All I need are my…
- A photograph it a souvenir of a memory. It is not a moment. It is the looking at the photograph that becomes the moment. Your…
- We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—†“Do I really have to find a word for it?†Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be…
- I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to…
- It's like you're a character in this book that everyone around you is writing, and suddenly you have to say, 'I'm sorry, but this role…
- I want love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything. It can't do anything on it's own. It relies on us to do the…
- Part of growing up is making sure your sense of reality isn't entirely grounded in your own mind.
- It is its own form of conversation -- you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know…
- As sisters, they probably have closer to 99 percent in common, but they’re not about to recognize that. They’d rather fight over what kind of…
More Own Quotes
- 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
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- 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
- 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
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits… — Ezra Taft Benson
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle