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Own Quotes by Sydney J. Harris
- What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The…
- Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This…
- Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it…
- Nobody can misunderstand a child as much as his own parents.
- And most of the failures in parent-child relationships, from my observation, begin when the child begins to acquire a mind and a will of its…
- Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause.…
- People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning…
- Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
- Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own…
- At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set…
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