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Own Quotes by Tom Robbins
- If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when…
- If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a…
- When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it cannot be owned.…
- We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
- When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find…
- Live the beauty or your own reality.
- The rich are the most discriminated-against minority in the world. Openly or covertly, everybody hates the rich because, openly or covertly, everybody envies the rich.…
- Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too self important to…
- Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is…
- Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to…
- Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!
- Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
- There are apparently few limitations either of time or space on where the psyche might journey and only the customs inspector employed by our own…
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