Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

... it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

David M. Kelley

I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.

David Hawkins

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

Dallas Willard

Projects of personal transformation rarely if ever succeed by accident, drift or imposition.

Antonin Scalia

We're all going to be old, ... It's unlike other personal characteristics such as race and sex.

This taps into a part of my personal life. I think the movie will resonate with a lot of people.

Anne Lamott

You are not your bank account, our your ambitiousness. You're not the cold clay lump with a big belly you leave behind when you die. You're not your collection of walking personality disorders. You are spirit, you are love.

Alber Elbaz

I adore women, and the one thing I want to do more than anything is to see a transformation of personality when someone puts on one of my dresses.

Daniel J. Boorstin

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a studiously crafted personality profile of an individual, institution, corporation, product or service.

D. A. Carson

Others have questions about how it is that God and human beings can both be speaking through the one document such that you can see and read the personalities of the human authors with their individual vocabularies and literary genres, and yet this is nevertheless the word of God. How can that be? This is quite a contrast with Islam, for example, which holds that the Koran has been dictated in Arabic by God and as a result Mohammed is nothing more than the one who memorizes the word so as to pass it on. There is nothing of human contribution.

A. B. Yehoshua

Since ideology is part of the human personality, it deserves a place in the kingdom of eternal truths.

A. E. Housman

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.

Nick Bostrom

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

Alexis Carrel

As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Jan Morris

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

Alan Sugar

Effective leadership is about earning respect, and it's also about personality and charisma

Charlotte Bronte

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Edward Abbey

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Della Reese

The way some of them talk, it's as if I was personally responsible for taking it off the air, but there was nothing I could do.

I personally don't think it could have went to a better candidate.

I personally didn't have any problems with it.

I personally did not suffer any type of inconvenience as a result of it.

Shelley Hennig

I'm personally more of a low-maintenance type of person. I want things to be easy and quick, especially when it comes to getting dressed.

I'm totally happy. It's a personal best. As long as I'm confident, I can run this well, and my training has been really good.

They got their personal agendas. I'm not going to put up with it.

Edward Meyer

It was the most personal thing in the whole collection, ... It screamed Marilyn.

Theo Epstein

It was a time of personal conflict. We had discord.