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Quotes About Personal

integrity means both personal wholeness and adherence to values outside yourself - especially goodness and truth
~ John Adair
Partiendo del hecho geométrico y existencial de que nuestro ser está en el centro de nuestra historia y en la periferia de las historias de los demás, muchos llegamos al mismo tiempo a la algo extravagante conclusión de que nuestra vida abunda en coincidencias y sucesos notables, mientras que las de los demás es más bien típica.
~ John Allen Paulos
All I wanted was to be left alone. They abhor a vacuum, other people. You find a quiet corner where you can hunker down in peace, and the next minute there they are, crowding around you in their party hats, tooting their paper whistles in your face and insisting you get up and join in the knees-up.
~ John Banville
Can I ask you something personal?" Six inches but I tell everyone eight.
~ John Barnes
Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society which has moved towards democracy and then stopped half way is the ideal society for generating such an emotion.
~ John Berger
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
~ John Bolton
I have come to believe that an individual consciousness represents an entity so personal and ontologically unique that it qualifies as something we might as well call a soul.
~ John Brockman
I'm myself, not a label.
~ John Brunner
To my mind, if the cosmos does not know the significance of life, then it is not God; and if there were no God beyond the cosmos, then all human history would be like dancing to the blind and singing to the deaf; and all noble thought and action would be like kissing a cold statue. I believed in a personal God, not because I wanted to project my personality upon God, but because to deprive Him of this attribute would be making the effect greater than the cause.
~ John C.H. Wu
Trust and Advice are personal.
~ John Care
Some people had a way of colonizing spaces, adapting them to form sanctuaries for themselves. Quayle was such a man. Billy took a seat
~ John Connolly
I'd ask you in for a nightcap, but I have no booze. Oh, and I don't want to. There's that too." "I won't take it personally." "I really wish that you would," she said, and then she was gone.
~ John Connolly
Each man dreams his own heaven.
~ John Connolly
My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man's.
~ John Connolly
This was what he had once upon a time expected and hoped of all books that he opened, that each be the one book he required, his own book. For
~ John Crowley
We all need something that's ours. A thing that we know absolutely about ourselves that others can only guess at.
~ John David Anderson
The ordinary modes of human thinking are magical, religious, social, and personal. We want our wishes to come true; we want the universe to care about us; we want the approval of those around us; we want to get even with that s.o.b. who insulted us at the last tribal council. For most people, wanting to know the cold truth about the world is way, way down the list.
~ John Derbyshire
Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.
~ John Dewey
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~ John Drinkwater
At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook of my life. And there are about 2,000 volumes.
~ Hugh Hefner
I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
~ Youssou N'Dour
I don't think it's a very nice idea [making biopic] at all. I don't think my life is that interesting.
~ Kate Bush
Look at your world and your life, and look at what is personal to you. If you're living in an apartment, you need to stick with a narrative that's personal to you.
~ Michael S. Smith
Daniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
~ P. D. James