Quotes about personality

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“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real… and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

“Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.”

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

“When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.”

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”

“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.”

“But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.”

“I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

“Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.”

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

“If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.”

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

“No person ever died that had a family.”

“That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.”

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

“… the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.”

“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”

“The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.”

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

“There was once a big atomic bomb
That wanted to be a bullet.
His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet.
"I miss", he sighed, "the personal touch.”

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”

“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”

“One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.”

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

“We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.”

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy… with polio.”

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

“In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.”

“Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.”

“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”

“It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.”

“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”

“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”

“Six a. m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!”

“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”

“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”

“If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”

“The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”

“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”

“What one person does, several people usually consider.”

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.”

“In the Night World there's this idea called the soulmate principle. It says that every person has one soulmate out there, just one. And that person is perfect for you and is your destiny.”

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”

“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs…. We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”

“He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.”

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”

“I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.”

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

“That's the thing with handmade items. They still have the person's mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.”

“A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.”

“Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.”

“Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite an adult/Isn’t really boring.”

“Which of us has not felt that the character we are reading in the printed page is more real than the person standing beside us?”

“You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others.”

“Not only are selves conditional but they die. Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

“There isn’t a person in this city more dangerous than a wolf whose mate is in danger.”

“My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.”

“The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games—” “—is Locke Lamora—”