Own Making Quotes

57 Own Making quotes by 52 unique authors

If the immutable heart can be grieved by the puppets of its own making, it is Divine Omnipotence, no other, that has subjected it, freely,… — C.S. Lewis
Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end… — Dawna Markova
The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that… — Barbara Ehrenreich
We need to brace ourselves for a struggle against terrifying obstacles...bot h of our own making and imposed by the natural world. And the first… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. — Robin Hobb
A persons life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine. — Rachel Roy
The bars on our cage are of our own making. — Jessie Burton
I generally play villains once every three or four years by choice because I get offered villainous roles a lot, because of the way I… — Kevin McKidd
Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making. — Norman Angell
The computing scientist's main challenge is not to get confused by the complexities of his own making. — Edsger Dijkstra
The evil in the world is all of our own making, and it proceeds entirely from our ruthless, senseless, wasteful, destructive, and suicidal neglect of… — Thomas Merton
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal… — H. P. Blavatsky
A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need… — Robert Genn
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making. — John Currin
However small we are, we should always fight for what we believe to be right. And I donâ€™t mean fight with the power of our… — Cressida Cowell
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not… — Werner Herzog
If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the… — Edward Abbey
She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making. — Edith Wharton

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