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Own Quotes by Marilynne Robinson
- We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of…
- Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous…
- Christianity is a life, not a doctrine . . . I'm not saying never doubt or question. The Lord gave you a mind so that…
- Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions…
- People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do,…
- I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
- Then there is the matter of my mother's abandonment of me. Again, this is the common experience. They walk ahead of us, and walk too…
- When things are taking their ordinary course, it is hard to remember what matters. There are so many things you would never think to tell…
- A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically…
- I like to read in my own house, in any of the rooms I always mean to paint or otherwise improve and never do. Every…
- I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less…
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