Owden Quotes & Sayings

There is no need to mention the great difference between the amount of satisfaction there is in just oneself being happy and the amount of satisfaction there is in an infinite number of people being happy. — Dalai Lama

Failing to set goals is like setting out on a road trip without a map. — Michelle Moore

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I almost always urge people to write in the first person ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen. — James Lovelock

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind. — Paul McCartney

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization. — Robert Brustein

Only because of the striving nature of men has mankind achieved what it has so far. Men are made that way; they are designed to reach out for things which they cannot see with their eyes but can only imagine. A man naturally seeks after his dream, his ideal, while women are more concerned with the here and now rather than the future, intangible realm. — Sun Myung Moon

We are the wilderness within
Screaming out for true expression.
Even when we're sleeping,
There's no escape from this obsession. — Jay Woodman

He would rather see you living a life that was honoring to Him, rather than making mistakes and repenting of them repeatedly. — Tim Baker

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything! — Imani Hakim

As one veteran Russian pilot dryly told me:We have to be very careful flying in the clouds. Around here they are full of rocks. — Alan Hinkes