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Own Quotes by Deb Caletti
- Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a…
- I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me…
- Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.
- Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to…
- You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future…
- The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No,…
- We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
- I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's…
- You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form…
- The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you…
- This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not…
- You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
- Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you…
- Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth…
- Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind.…
- You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
- A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that…
- When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
- Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and breathe. Love's passion…
- We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so…
- I think a setting is hugely important. I look at setting as a character with its own look, sound, history, quirks, goofy temperaments and moods.
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