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Own Quotes by Mary Oliver
- Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
- I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with…
- Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as…
- The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention. I don't say this without reckoning in the sorrow, the worry, the many…
- Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift.
- The end of life has its own nature, also worth our attention.
- To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing…
- The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.
- ...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world,…
- And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
- A dog comes to you and lives with you in your own house, but you do not therefore own her, as you do not own…
- The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and…
- And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But…
- On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how…
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