Personal Quotes

5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror… — Massad Ayoob
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so… — Kate Millett
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. — Siri Hustvedt
I believe you can train yourself to become a positive thinker, but you must cultivate a desire to develop the skill of setting personal worthy… — M. Russell Ballard
Learning the lessons of the past allows you to walk boldly in the light without running the risk of stumbling in the darkness. This is… — M. Russell Ballard
Though this world has a way of diminishing and demeaning men and women, the reality is we are all of royal, divine lineage. In that… — M. Russell Ballard
For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their… — Peter Thiel
Personal style is about a sense of yourself, a sense of what you believe in and wearing what you like. — Ralph Lauren
People never hurt others in moments of personal strength and bravery, when they are feeling good about themselves, when they are strong and confident. If… — Tim Wise
My motto is very personal and may not fit anyone else or any other company. It is: Don't do anything that someone else can do.… — Edwin Land
And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to… — Arlie Russell Hochschild
Unless we are prepared to search our souls to discover what to say, and then how to say it effectively, we cannot expect to deal… — Unknown Author
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes;… — Unknown Author
Ornette Coleman wasn't sure whether he was going to continue with Charlie Haden-Charlie had some personal problems. I said "You've got to be kidding! There's… — Paul Bley
Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe… — Oscar Peterson
Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most… — Malcolm Forbes
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war. — Laurell K. Hamilton
Personal finances are like people’s personal health, crucial and tragic to the sufferer but tedious to the listener. — Thomas Keneally
Movement is the universal language of personal freedom. — Unknown Author
Observing many companies in action, I am unable to point to a single instance in which stunning results were gotten without the active and personal… — Joseph M. Juran
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success. — Paulo Freire
New beginnings – professional, personal, or come what may – are always uncomfortable, but being open to them is the only way to grow. In… — Marissa Mayer
The Restless Anthropologist is a rich, powerful, and compulsively readable collection of essays by anthropologists who look back at the multiple relationships between their serial… — Unknown Author
Societies in which most people depend for most of their goods and services on the personal whim, kindness, or skill of another are called underdeveloped,… — Ivan Illich
Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles. — Marilyn vos Savant

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