Own Making Quotes

57 quotes by 52 authors

Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making. — Fred Allen
We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making. — Joseph Chilton Pearce
If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If people by a… — Herbert Spencer
We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making. — Terry Brooks
Avoid openly trying to reform people. Every man knows he is imperfect, but he doesn't want someone else trying to correct his faults. If you… — David Packard
My young friends, ... not all the whirlwinds in life are of your own making. Some come because of the wrong choices of others, and… — Neil L. Andersen
Now that science has helped us to overcome the awe of the unknown in nature, we are the slaves of social pressures of our own… — Max Horkheimer
Humanity is sitting on a time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a… — Al Gore
It is certain that the most natural and human government is that of consent, for that binds freely, ... when men hold their liberty by… — William Penn
Like primitive, we now live in a global village of our own making, a simultaneous happening. It doesn't necessarily mean harmony and peace and quiet… — Marshall McLuhan
I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate… — Rod Serling
Man is/the symbol-using (symbol making, symbol-misusing) animal/inventor of the negative (or moralized by the negative)/separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making/goaded… — Kenneth Burke
Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen. — Wayne Newton
Destiny and fate are of oneâ€™s own making, and riches and happiness are rarely found at the end of an easily-traversed path. — Chris Murray
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their… — Samuel Smiles
Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us… — Jared Diamond
Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the… — Orson Pratt
People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving… — Jodee Blanco
What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is… — Rodney Mullen
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making. — Samuel Smiles

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