Personal Quotes
5263 Personal quotes by 3479 unique authors
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I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I…
— Davy Jones
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We pray as if God’s chief objective is our personal comfort. It’s not. God’s chief objective is His glory.
— Mark Batterson
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Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for…
— Zhuangzi
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Although they only give gold medals in the field of athletics, I encourage everyone to look into themselves and find their own personal dream, whatever…
— Unknown Author
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ...…
— John Berger
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It's just a matter of who you are and how you talk to people. Your subjects will trust you only if you're confident about what…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Humanity needs more than merely information. We express original ideas, humor, and our personal wills. We express passions and emotions. A person's point of view…
— Hideo Kojima
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A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never…
— Alasdair Gray
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The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but also to its…
— Michel Chion
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Hair brings one’s self-image into focus; it is vanity’s proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices
— Shana Alexander
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The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.
— Rose Wilder Lane
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We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is…
— Richard M. Eyre
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How do we handle adversity? Adversity is going to be with us in everything that we do, almost in every facet of our lives-in our…
— LaVell Edwards
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The whole point of life is to maximize your emotional income. Getting that ball and going is a tremendous physical thrill, an ego thrill, a…
— John McNally
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Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
— E. M. Forster
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PILLORY, n. A mechanical device for inflicting personal distinction - prototype of the modern newspaper conducted by persons of austere virtues and blameless lives.
— Ambrose Bierce
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All business is personal...Make your friends before you need them.
— Robert Johnson
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It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and…
— Marion G. Romney
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There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react…
— Swami Vivekananda
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One method of staying ahead of rising asset prices and the declining dollar is to think bigger and come up with better plans. As important…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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In love, each man is his own personal challenge.
— Leo Buscaglia
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If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars,…
— Odysseas Elytis
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Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere,…
— Unknown Author
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