Quotes About Personality

I'd known for a long time why I loved history. It was because the historians made it sound so coherent, so purposeful, so complete. They'd take an entire century and impose a meaning on it, a personality, a destiny—and this was, of course, a lie.

Quinn,' she said, 'we live in houses that were built by people's dreams, and we have to accept that. We have to revere the dream and realize that someday the house will go to others after us. These houses are personalities in our lives. They have their roles to play.

She's so pretty to look at and so lighthearted, the way your mother used to be before we married. But she's not, let's say, very…cerebral. And she doesn't have your backbone, your fiber.

My wife used to say that her idea of hell would be marrying Ghandi, Ben said ... Think about it: Ghandi was always the good one. Everyone else looked so rude and loud and self-centered by comparison.

He was like anybody else, Red said. Insufferable and likeable. Bad and good.

He was like anybody else, Red said. Insufferable and likable. Bad and good.

Not just your face was changed by the knife. Your personality— the real you inside— was the price of beauty.

It didn't matter what you looked like. It was how you carried yourself, how you saw yourself.

what you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful

They're so attached to their patterns that they've forgotten rule number one of human behavior: there are no patterns. People just do things. There's no such things as a coherent and fully integrated human personality, let alone consistent motivation.

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent human personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.

In the case of personality, most psychologists agree that there are five traits that are essential in how people look at us: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability.

Your name makes a statement about you. It describes not only who you are but who you might be.

Now our poor Gib never had a sense of humor to lose...

He could not change his nature, could not help being cautious, deliberate, introspective, not traits to be scorned by any means, but traits that seemed dull, bland—even to him—when compared with Davydd's hell-for-leather dazzle.

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks?

It isn't his fault he was born without a personality. You don't get to choose your gene pool.

I know she's weird. Her friends know she's weird. And we all accept it because she's weird, but also amazing.

But Sissy had a way of bringing out the fun side of anybody if she'd a mind to. To quote Janie Mae, Sissy came out of my womb with her middle finger raised.

You're really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)

Don't worry, Otto. I'm an acquired taste. Most of my best friends had to know me for years before they could even stand my presence. I'm like mold, I usually grow on you very slowly. (Tabitha)

See... I knew baby Marissa was quality people, look how she's eating the head off the red-headed Artemis doll. Simi need to teach her to belch fire, then introduce her to the real heifer-Goddess herself(Simi)

People are basically irritating. Myself included.