Quotes About Personality

Characters may lend the action a certain colouring, but it is what happens that comes first. To overlook this while watching a tragedy would be like treating a football game simply as the acts of a set of solitary individuals, or as chance for each of them to display 'personality'. The fact that some players behave as though this is precisely what football games are about should not distract us from this point.

that girl has a temper. a very bad temper. and you don't? richard asked. not like hers.

It now seems obvious that the way we're raised has a major impact on what kind of person we turn out to be, but so does who we love.

Your average witch is not, by nature, a social animal as far as other witches are concerned. There's a conflict of dominant personalities. There's a group of ringleaders without a ring. There's the basic unwritten rule of witchcraft, which is 'Don't do what you will, do what I say.' The natural size of a coven is one. Witches only get together when they can't avoid it.

He'sh mad? Sort of mad. But mad with lots of money. Ah, then he can't be mad. I've been around; if a man hash lotsh of money he'sh just ecshentric.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

People whose wishes get granted often don't turn out to be very nice people.

It pays to advertise," Nanny agreed. "This is Greebo. Between you and me, he's a fiend from hell." "Well, he's a cat," said Mrs. Gogol, generously. "It's only to be expected.

But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

This is Morbidia, said Vlad. Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.

Nanny Ogg was an attractive lady, which is not the same as being beautiful. She fascinated Casanunda. She was an incredibly comfortable person to be around, partly because she had a mind so broad it could accommodate three football fields and a bowling alley.

You can't be loony and rich. You've got to be eccentric if you're rich.

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving.

His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.

Foul Ole Ron was a physical schizophrenic. There was Foul Ole Ron, and there was the smell of Foul Ole Ron, which had obviously developed over the years to such an extent that it had a distinct personality

In the same way that the really rich can never be mad (they're eccentric), so they can also never be rude (they're outspoken and forthright).

He rather liked people. It was a major failing in a demon.

Hats defined the head. They defined who you were.

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.

Effi sente sì il bisogno di parlare, ma non quello di dire tutto ciò che le pesa sul cuore, e molte questioni le risolve tra sé e sé. È espansiva e chiusa nello stesso tempo, quasi si nascondesse; insomma è un carattere tutto particolare.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are. We

Many of us, both monastics and laypeople, learn about the Buddhadharma without anything changing in our life. Our personality remains exactly the same because we cannot digest and apply what we've learned. What we've learned doesn't help us and so we can't help anyone. Zen doesn't travel along a path of learning through writing and words; it relies on direct transmission between teacher and student.

Jon Stewart is exactly the same guy he's always been, only with money. He knows that the moment he really believes he's important, the funny goes away and he becomes Bill O'Reilly, except shorter and Jewish.

It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.