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Quotes About Personality

În literatur?, oamenii elementari, cu pasiuni puternice, dominaÈ›i de un singur viciu sau oarecum maniaci, par vii È™i autentici. CeilalÈ›i, mai ales oamenii buni, blânzi, inteligenÈ›i È™i, în primul rând, oamenii preocupaÈ›i de probleme morale, par fazi, f?r? contur, lipsiÈ›i de personalitate. În fond, literar vorbind, sunt neinteresanÈ›i.
~ Mircea Eliade
I know I'm capable of being outrageous, but I don't do it all the time; at home I'm quiet and boring, preferring to subside into a book or into the computer. I do not have a public persona. I don't assume sweetness for the camera; I'm the same person no matter where I go or what company I'm in. But, like everyone else, I judge which facet of my personality will suit a particular situation and present it. To that extent, I am calculating - but never to conceal, only to reveal.
~ Miriam Margolyes
Svi smo mi maske i svi smo mi zakrinkani i svaki ?ovjek ima s vremena na vrijeme potrebu da skine svoju masku na jedan tren, da se raskrinka, da progovori po crti svog intimnog raspoloženja...
~ Miroslav Krleža
Je?li chcesz pozna? czyj? prawdziwy charakter, daj mu w?adz? i pieni?dze. Wtedy poka?e ci swoj? w?a?ciw? twarz.
~ Misha Glenny
I thought you were a narcissist. Koppel burst into laughter. I'm too ugly to be a narcissist, he said.
~ Mitch Albom
Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.
~ Mitch Cullin
for personalities are not a single immutable colour, like white or blue, but rather illuminated screens, and the shades we reflect depend much on what is around us.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Le personalità non hanno un unico immutabile colore, come il bianco o il blu, ma sono come schermi illuminati, e le sfumature che proiettiamo dipendono da ciò che ci circonda
~ Mohsin Hamid
Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.
~ Myles Munroe
When you're small, you can choose which way to grow. If you're kind and decent, you grow into a kind and decent man. The idea that if you were mean, you might stay mean forever had never occurred to him.
~ Nancy Farmer
That was where [Lady Montdore's] charm lay. She would suddenly be nice just when it seemed that she was about to go for you tooth and nail, it was the charm of a purring puma.
~ Nancy Mitford
Why miss out on what God has in store for you while you're trying to get in on his plan for somebody else? Your plans are the best—for YOU—and so is your personality. You're so worth it
~ Nancy Rue
watching "I Love Lucy" reruns on TV Land–now there was a wacko, that Lucy woman–and
~ Nancy Rue
Sabes? Es casi admirable —dijo al cabo de un momento, con la voz menos temblorosa—. Estás medio muerta y sigues siendo la persona más borde que he conocido nunca. Y por cierto: de nada, otra vez.
~ Naomi Novik
Os homens são estimulados visualmente pelo corpo feminino e são menos impressionáveis pela personalidade da mulher porque desde cedo são treinados para reagir assim, enquanto as mulheres são menos estimuladas em termos visuais e mais em termos emocionais por ser este o treinamento que recebem.
~ Naomi Wolf
There is no hope of success for the person who repels people through a negative personality. Success comes through the application of POWER, and power is attained through the cooperative efforts of other people. A negative personality will not induce cooperation.
~ Napoleon Hill
I believe in humility...Also, I believe in pride, knowing well that the deadliest of the seven deadly sins is named as pride. I believe in a pride that prays ever for an awareness of that borderline where, unless watchful of yourself, you cross over into arrogance, into vanity, into mirror gazing, into misuse and violation of the sacred portions of your personality.
~ Carl Sandburg
No me pareció que fuese feliz en París, aunque me dio la impresión de que era de esas personas que no pueden ser felices en ninguna parte.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fumero laughed again, that forced, affected laugh that seemed to sum him up like the blurb on a book jacket.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Indem Sie herkommen und gute Bücher lesen, die, die Ihnen gefallen, nicht die, von denen ich oder sonst jemand sagt, Sie sollen sie lesen - ich mag zwar affektiert sein, aber ein Pedant bin ich nicht.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
I'll practice the new me in front of guests. I kind of like some of them, the guests. One has a soft, soft voice but I'm afraid he, too, may be practicing his new personality on me and that maybe he has trained himself with electric shock to his balls or some other place just as tender and soft, so that we are both living a lie.
~ Carol Emshwiller
His voice, you might say, became the place where he lived, the way other people live in their furniture or gestures
~ Carol Shields
We try on many masks throughout our lives. Eventually we find one that fits so well we never take it off.
~ Caroline Graham