Personal Quotes

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. View quote
Edith Sitwell
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage. View quote
André Maurois
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. View quote
Marlon Brando
Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
The Fourth Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. View quote
Potter Stewart
People should be judged on the basis of their performance, not nationality, personality, education, or personal traits and skills. View quote
Marvin Bower
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty. (George Santayana)
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. View quote
Edith Wharton
But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? View quote
Gregory Bateson
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries. View quote
Thomas Mann
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager. View quote
Sylvester Stallone
I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. View quote
Frank Sinatra
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. View quote
Jim Morrison
A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences. View quote
Amos Bronson Alcott
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. (Henri Matisse)
Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. View quote
Toni Morrison
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. View quote
Gerald Ford
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. View quote
Manuel Puig