Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would… — John Doolittle
We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment,… — Peter London
All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal… — Edward Bond
The easiest way to gain control of the population is to carry out acts of terror. The public will clamor for such laws if their… — Joseph Stalin
We need a program of psychosurgery for political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the… — David Hume
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the 'disenchantment of the world.' Precisely the ultimate and most… — Max Weber
It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people — Carlos Castaneda
Careless of waste, wallowing in refuse, exterminating the enemies . . . despising age, denying human natural history, fabricating pseudotraditions, swamped in the repeated personal… — Paul Shepard
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
When you give up vengeance, make sure you are not giving up on justice. The line between the two is faint, unsteady, and fine...Vengeance is… — Lewis B. Smedes
It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it… — Amanda Seyfried
Hey, lady, those are some sexy-ass extensions. I guess you wont mind if I extend to you a personal invitation to party with me one-on-one… — Michael Cera
And if after all this you eventually fail; don't take it personal. Don't be ashamed to start all over again. — Richard Branson
Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth,… — Jim Rohn
The faster we grew, the more stores we had open, the more money we made. Employees move quickly up the ranks of a company that's… — Wayne Huizenga
Policies that support families aren't political issues. They're personal. They're the causes I carry with me every single day. — Michelle Obama
And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party… — Barry McGuire
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of… — John Stuart Mill
More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons,… — Andrew Solomon
Every human being has a personal legend to be fulfilled, and this is our reason for being in the world. This personal legend manifests itself… — Paulo Coelho
One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon… — Paulo Coelho
He accepts his Personal Legend completely. — Paulo Coelho
You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend. — Paulo Coelho

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