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Your Quotes

On staying in control of what's truly your own.

These quotes focus on ownership: your trust, your plans, your self-esteem, and how easily outside pressure can chip away at decisions that should belong to you alone. For more, see our Know quotes.

If you meet a woman in a burqa, she can't reply to your smile. It's a denial of identity.

Quotes by Jean-Francois Cope

When you create a movie, you create something in your image.

Quotes by Jean-Jacques Annaud

You've got to trust your instincts, your judgment and trust the storytelling that came before and the quality of the acting with the emotion.

Quotes by Jean-Marc Vallee

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

Quotes by Jean Kerr

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Quotes by Jean Paul

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.

Quotes by Jean Genet

Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all.

Quotes by Jean Genet

Let's face it: your average straight, cis-gender teenage boy isn't going to pursue a relationship with a trans-girl.

Quotes by Jazz Jennings

If you want a referendum, vote for the others. Or, in certain cases, you can stay at home, you don't vote and you could find yourself with a referendum by default because you didn't exercise your vote.

Quotes by Jean Charest

Whether it's fly-fishing, taking your camper to the Everglades, or just traveling, everyone has got a little retirement dream.

Quotes by Jean Chatzky

You'll get the biggest bang for each buck by paying off the highest interest rate debt in your portfolio first, while making minimum payments on the remainder. It's called the avalanche method, and it gets you out of debt cheapest...

Quotes by Jean Chatzky

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading...

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.

Quotes by Jean Cocteau

Children will often write, 'We love your books because there are no adults in them.'

Quotes by Jean Craighead George

The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!

Quotes by Jay-Z

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks.

Quotes by Jay Mohr

If it doesn't know what to charge you for nosebleed seats, your team sucks.

Quotes by Jay Mohr

But if applause throws off your timing, then you're not the kind of comedian I would like to see. All you have to do is stand there and take it.

Quotes by Jay Mohr

Having glue stuck to your face in winter is not fun. It freezes as it hits the skin.

Quotes by Jay Ryan

If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination....

Quotes by Jay S. Walker

Frequently Asked Questions

What themes come up across these "Your" quotes?
The quotes touch on trusting others with your personal information, translating your own plans into words, feelings tied to a specific record, and a sharp, personal comparison involving self-esteem.
Is there a quote about privacy or trust?
Yes, one reflects on cryptography and not needing to trust others because encrypting your files gives you control over "whether you would surrender" that trust.
Is there a quote here referencing a real public figure?
Yes: "Slobodan Milosevic was just as smart as a five-year-old. Five-year-olds have an uncanny way of getting into your psyche, your self-esteem" makes a pointed comparison using Milosevic's name.
Does this page talk about turning plans into action?
Yes, one quote explains a dislike of outlines and treatments, noting that writing your plan down on paper can make it "very hard to get those ideas out of your head and do something better" with them. For more on persistence and ambition, see Know or Always.
Is there anything here about music or personal records?
Yes, one quote describes a record as feeling "innocent," tied to being young enough not to fully grasp the weight of your own decisions. For more reflective, first-person lines, see Life or Like.

Related themes continue in our Always quotes and Life quotes, both about staying grounded in your own choices.