Quotes About Personality

He learned to cultivate a secretive style and a defiant attitude toward strangers.

The photograph captured the man whole.

His grandson wrote that Hamilton's personality was "a mixture of aggressive force and infinite tenderness and amiability.

Something between a butterfly and a misanthrope, he was temperamental, when not otherwise...employed.

The islanders, they write: carried out for us the experiment of permitting unrestricted population growth, profligate use of resources, destruction of the environment and boundless confidence in their religion to take care of the future. The result was an ecological disaster leading to a population crash…. Do we have to repeat the experiment on [a] grand scale?… Is the human personality always the same as that of the person who felled the last tree?

nosotros mismos, porque nuestra identidad reside en la memoria, en el relato de nuestra biografía

you can't be anybody but yourself. At the end of the day, you're stuck with that

As soon as you went through the door for the first time, you got the feel of the atmosphere, and so discovered something about the personalities of the people who lived there.

The grown-up is only a thin coat of chocolate over the hard nut of the child. Whatever you were as a kid, you still are when the chocolate gets licked off or scraped off.

You know a man," Papa had always said, "by his anger.

I was slowly discovering that if you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.

Any soul who has survived to the age of eighty - two with nary a secret would be extremely dull. I, for one, would have very little interest in making their acquaintance.

The trouble with psychology, said Wexford epigrammatically, 'is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

Stanley was affable, even considerate.

Children interested Miss Peters, especially when she found one that had not been run into a mold or cut out of a given piece of cloth and made up like a flannel rabbit.

In the first case, he personally enjoyed the esthetic; in the second case, he esthetically enjoyed his personality.

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

I swear, Oliver, when did you become such a stick-in-the-mud?" "I've always been a stick-in-the-mud." Her brother cast her a thin smile. "I just hid it beneath all the debauchery." She sniffed. "I wish you'd hide it again. It's quite annoying.

Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogenous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.

She liked red wine but had no head for it and after two glasses became a different person, giggling, gesticulating, talking without stopping, interrupting others, and, always, wanting to dance.

Religion was the glue of Pakistan, holding the halves together; just as consciousness, the awareness of oneself as a homogeneous entity in time, a blend of past and present, is the glue of personality, holding together our then and our now.

I cannot take credit for the fact that I do not have the soul of a psychopath.

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rantsand her calming presence and—hello, irony.

Who you are as a person far outweighs what you do in an athletic arena.