Quotes About Personality

Our preaching should reflect the uniqueness of our personalities, but our lives should

O sadismo, se o reduzirmos ao princípio fundamental que o norteia, pouco mais será do que o desejo de vincar indelevelmente, e da maneira mais inequívoca e extrema, a marca da própria personalidade sobre as coisas e os seres do mundo exterior.

if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way. And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.

In the midst of the personified impersonal, a personality stands here. Though but a point at best; whencesoe'er I came; wheresoe'er I go; yet while I earthly live, the queenly personality lives in me, and feels her royal rights.

Phil's a slow-thinking sort, so I usually tied him up. He's one of the few communists I've ever been able to stand. They're like the abolitionists. Their cause may be just, but their personalities are repulsive. I don't really know whether they're right or not, and I don't care.

I have a heart of gold. My only faults are that I'm totally selfish and immoral.

The early-twentieth-century psychoanalytic thinker Carl Jung, says Kagan, originated the concept of introverted and extroverted personalities. Jung also believed that each had a slightly different brain structure.

Kagan feels that in his own way, he has proven Jung right. He's found that 10 to 15 percent of infants are born with a tendency to be fearful and withdrawn, while another 10 to 15 percent are born with a flair for dauntless spontaneity

I was glad to be rid of him. He was one of those people who could go to New York and be fascinating, but here in his own world he was just a cheap functionary, and a dull one at that.

She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.

Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. They lacked personality and the patina of individual craftsmanship that European cars have.

It was exhilarating, at least at first, to live in a city of narcissists.

One could go on, but with diminishing returns. MacArthur was a serial confabulator

I make a bad mom, but I can pull off a crazy aunt.

Some people got vicious Dobermans. I got a shaved attack poodle in a black sweater. His tough, spawn-of-hell image had taken a fatal blow, but at least he would be warm.

DOES EVERYBODY THINK I am an asshole?" Curran asked. "Only people who know you or have met you.

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

Did they think I would throw a tantrum?" "Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.

Beautiful I would never be. Striking, that I could manage.

I would try being friends with her, but she's too busy being a smartass. Now you know how the rest of us feel, Jim said.

Baby, you're not the tantrum type. You are the scary-smile-and-stabbing type.

K. Thiagarajan is a painfully shy young man. But he is the human personification of the idiom 'Still waters run deep.'

I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.

I was an introverted kid; I liked my time alone. And the rest of my family is pretty extroverted, so I felt like a bit of an oddball. They're very gregarious and charming and charismatic people. I always felt like I was struggling as a young person. I think everyone was very surprised to hear that I wanted to be an actor.