Quotes About Personality

Melanie was Irish, and this made everything she said sound nice even when it wasn't.

She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

One of these days, she said, I am going to pull myself together for a while and think - try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know.

Your DNA is not you. It is more like the basic instructions for you. DNA is to a person as a blueprint is to a house.

Laconic" and "sarcastic," as the men in my regiment would later invariably describe me. Classic New England.

What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.

Moods are by nature compelling, contagious, and profoundly interpersonal, and disorders of mood alter the perceptions and behaviors not only of those who have them but also of those who are related or closely associated. Manic-depressive illness—marked as it is by extraordinary and confusing fluctuations in mood, personality, thinking, and behavior—inevitably has powerful and often painful effects on relationships.

We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities.

We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized.

People who aren't as exuberant as you are get really irritated with you.

you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?' 'Yes, certainly.' 'And that could be difficult, no? Something beyond even your wonderful capabilities. Because an impersonation wouldn't do, however skillful. You'd have to learn her heart, and learn it fully, or you'll never become Josie in any sense that matters.

each of us special and individual? And if we just suppose that there is. Then don't you think, in order to truly learn Josie, you'd have to learn not just her mannerisms but what's deeply inside her? Wouldn't you have to learn her heart?

however accurately one may fill in the surface details of one's mirror reflection, the personality represented rarely comes near the truth as others would see it.

Gojyo: That no good holy man's been rubbing off on you! Goku: Me? Like Sanzo?! What a rotten thing to say!

He was tall and scrawny with a face that could be mistaken with Keith Richards on a bad day.

My nephew is a manipulative, scheming, unscrupulous son of a bitch. And those are his good qualities.

My fourteen-year-old sister Lara is a brat. Unfortunately, no one sees it but me. To everyone else, she's adorable. She's tiny and blonde and sweet and as helpless as a kitten. Chloe reminded me of Lara, at first. The difference, as I discovered, is that Chloe really is as sweet as she seems and she isn't as helpless as she looks.

Would you like to join us, Rafael?" my mom asked. "Or do you go by Rafe?" "Usually." A disarming grin. "Unless I'm in trouble.

The guy didn't know shit about demons. Asmondai preferred to think things through. My granddaddy was the charging-bull type. Which I suppose explains why I'd fallen for the taunting and Adam only rolled his eyes.

I don't know whether it's a personality clash or simply a product of the times, where women have so little power that they wield it against one another with unnecessary vigor.

A child will always be what he is, she thought, and not what you want him to be.

They were the same height and weight, and could wear each other's clothes. But Lev had charm by the ton. He was unreliable and selfish, and he lived on the edge of the law, but women adored him. Grigori was honest and dependable, a hard worker and a serious thinker, and he was single. It would

one of Churchill's jibes about Attlee: "An empty car drew up and Clem got out." The

Grégory avait un esprit tordu qui convenait parfaitement à qui voulait pratiquer le droit.