Quotes about personality
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Source: Death in the Stocks
Source: Oceans of Fire
Source: Duchess By Night
Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist
Source: The Autobiography of My Mother
“Personally, I quite like that. Such stupid gallantry.
Yes. I like that a lot.”
Source: The Book Thief
1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx
Variant: A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
Source: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956)
Context: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
Context: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men — such as the subjects of this book — have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.
Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly.
"Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.”
Source: Alice in Zombieland
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Source: The Condemned
Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“Having a normal person around me made it poingnantly clear to me that I was out of control.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future
Savannah Lynn Curtis, Chapter 4, p. 71
Variant: ... when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)
Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 203
Variant: Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
Source: Message in a Bottle
“Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person… and deep down, I'm not”
Source: Batman: Hush, Vol. 1
“Of any activity you do, ask yourself: If I were the last person on earth, would I still do it?”
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
"The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'", The Miami Herald, November 2, 1997.
Columns and articles
“A person who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.”
Variant: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Source: The Kite Runner
Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
“Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?”
Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you
“When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.”
Source: Cloaked
Variant: There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Source: Just Listen
“Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.”
Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“A person’s destiny is something you look back at afterwards, not something to be known in advance.”
Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“The bottom line is that we never fall for the person we're supposed to.”
Variant: The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
Source: My Sister's Keeper
Source: Letters to a Young Conservative
Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential
Source: The Marriage of Opposites
Rose
Titanic (1997)
Context: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.
"On Eating and Drinking".
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.
Source: The Hero and the Crown
“One person can make a difference, and every person should try.”
Political scientist Thomas E. Cronin, "Leadership and Democracy", in 'Liberal Education', 1987
Misattributed
Source: Watermelon
“Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.”
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 28.
“Anything a person chases in life runs away.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.”
Source: Faefever
“… blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.”
Source: All Families are Psychotic
“Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.”
Variant: Laila came to believe that of all the hardships a person has to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.”
Quoted in Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost (1961) by Lawrence Thompson
1960s
“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”
Source: Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It
Source: Thanks for the Memories
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
