Own Making Quotes

Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.

Most of our [economic] problems are of our own making.

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making.

These are the times, the times of our own, these are the shapes the world we formed.

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.

In the end we are all caught in devices of our own making. I believe that. In the end we are all caught.

Sometimes I suspect that we build our traps ourselves, then we back into them, pretending amazement the while.