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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley

Love, Happiness, Experience

The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
Earl Nightingale

Job, Career, Remember

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
Chanakya

Fool, Sleep, Small

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.
Desmond Tutu

Human, Racism, Unfair

In no other country in the world is the love of property keener or more alert than in the United States, and nowhere else does the majority display less inclination toward doctrines which in any way threaten the way property is owned.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Love, Country, Else

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
William Hazlitt

Rather, Nation, English

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
Sitting Bull

Men, Today, Battle

While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
Ted Nugent

Important, Gun, While

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence

Live, Two, Longer

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
Hermann Hesse

Yourself, Afraid, Themselves

I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them.
Charles Lindbergh

Free, Earth, Hour

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.
Louis C. K.

Put, Guy, Telling

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
Annie Lennox

Free, Album, Obliged

You notice patterns. White guests often are mortified - that word again - when they learn their ancestors owned slaves. But I've never had a black guest who was upset to learn about white ancestry that probably involved forced sexual relations.
Henry Louis Gates

Black, Learn, Again

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
Jack Nicholson

Good, School, Parents

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.
Emeril Lagasse

Time, Dad, Young

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.
Wislawa Szymborska

Nothing, While, Memory

I have never solicited nor received money from Iraq for our campaign against war and sanctions. I have never seen a barrel of oil, never owned one, never bought one, never sold one.
George Galloway

Money, War, Against

I own a lot of my house, because I'm Irish and from people who never owned anything.
Dan Savage

The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.
Eliot Spitzer

Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.
Sean Connery

Head, Percent, Scotland

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
Christopher Walken

True, Small, Guy

My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.
John Boehner

Dad, Waiting, Growing

If we're going to spend a lot of money to deal with the problem of 200 million guns in the country owned by 65 million gun owners, we ought to have a system which will work and catch criminals.
John Dingell

Work, Money, Country

Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
Barbara Corcoran

Time, Women, Men

The more suits I owned, the more I realized the best besuited look a man can achieve comes from a harmony of three details: fabric, construction, and fit. If the suit fits you like a glove and it's well made, you simply feel better about everything in life when you're wearing it.
Paul Feig

Life, Best, Three

Jefferson owned slaves. He did not believe that all were created equal. He was a racist.
Stephen Ambrose

Equal, Slaves, Created

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.
Warren Farrell

Woman, Himself, Owning

John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks.
Carter Burwell

Film, Aware, Bond

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
Ayelet Waldman

Failure, Father, Real

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