Personal Quotes - page 2

When you make a movie, it's just so personal and then you put it out in front of people and it becomes something else. (Jennifer Yuh Nelson)
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a book or a magazine than a small body of enlightened and responsible men administering public funds. I would rather chance my personal vision of truth striking home here and there in the chaos of publication that exists than attempt to filter it through a few sets of official, honorably public-spirited scruples. View quote
John Updike
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. View quote
James Thurber
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences. View quote
William James
Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. View quote
George Eliot
One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction. View quote
Karel Čapek
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable. View quote
Christian Dior
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff. View quote
Aleister Crowley
I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control. View quote
Bruce Dickinson
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time. View quote
Barbara Bush
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? (Carl Rogers)
JUSTICE, n. A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Heaven, n. A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound your own. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. View quote
Michio Kushi
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. View quote
Edward Hopper
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. View quote
Gene Fowler
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free. View quote
David Foster Wallace
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
That sort of fundamentalism which treats possession of private property not as a desirable economic and personal asset but as a condition of liberty is a form of primitive religion. View quote
Neil Kinnock
I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. (Henry Rollins)
Violence is a personal necessity for the oppressed ... It is not a strategy consciously devised. It is the deep, instinctive expression of a human being denied individuality. View quote
Richard Wright
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided.... No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant