Best Own Image Sayings
153 Own Image quotes by 127 unique authors
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you…
— Karl Shapiro
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The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that…
— Teresa of Avila
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Fundamentalist Christians are my sisters and brothers, my family and friends, my oldest colleagues and coworkers. But I fear their love for the nation has…
— Mel White
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The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was…
— Janelle Monae
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
— Karel Capek
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Mirrors are there when we are and yet they never give anything back to us but our own image. Never, never shall we know what…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to reflect…
— Bruno Bettelheim
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Exposed! shines a harsh light on the myriad horrors of modern society and reports back from the fearful frontlines with wicked wit and paranoid power.…
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
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The United States cannot reshape other countries in its own image and that, with a few exceptions, its efforts to police the world are neither…
— George F. Kennan
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You can do nothing that is in conflict with your own image of what you really are.
— James Van Fleet
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I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as…
— Barbara Corcoran
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A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically…
— Joan Didion
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I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created…
— Stephen Hawking
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Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his…
— Aldous Huxley
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My own image of my work is that I no sooner settle into something than a break occurs. These breaks are always painful and depressing…
— Lee Krasner
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You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
— Anne Lamott
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God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we…
— Thomas Merton
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Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
— Ayn Rand
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My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be…
— George Santayana
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When I first discovered in the early 1980s the Italian espresso bars in my trip to Italy, the vision was to re-create that for America…
— Howard Schultz
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So heedless have we become of our own image that second-hand mobile phones now invariably come with a SIM card chock-full of discarded intimacies.
— Will Self
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The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.
— Steven Spielberg
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I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles.
— Antonio Tabucchi
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