#own

What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights. ↗

— Kate Bush

#experiences #get #heights #i #into

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#been #best #best friend #dated #either

When you use God as an excuse to hate people and you use God as an excuse to cut people down, first of all, I think it's insulting to God. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#down #excuse #first #first of all #god

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression. ↗

— Amir Butler

#complete #desire #doubt #freedom #however

As long as you do the best work that you can and not make it bland... because you're going down a lane that is trying to make everybody happy. You have to take an angle on these things. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#because #best #best work #bland #down

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#considered #contribute #designed #every #every man

Thus self-love as one part of human nature, and the several particular principles as the other part, are, themselves, their objects and ends, stated and shown. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#human #human nature #nature #objects #other

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#ancestry #emotional #feel #get #i

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#down #frees #imprisoned #like #shelf

He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#his #opinion #own #still #will