Quotes About Personal

He was accustomed to paying measurable heed only to those details that bore upon him most directly.

It seems that one ought to read in two ways: 1) because of a particular and personal interest, which makes the thing one's own, regardless of what other people think of the book 2) to a certain extent, because it is something one 'ought to have read' but one must be quite clear this why one is reading.

I suspect, in fact, that a good deal of the value of an interpretation is -- that it should be my own interpretation.

Teaching was more important than personal objectives. Teaching was a serious debt that could only be repaid by correct teaching of new mages.

Una persona debería leer un libro porque este provoca algo en su corazón. Porque satisface la sed de conocimiento de esa persona, no la de algún hombre que vivía en la torre de un castillo hace doscientos años" - Andrew

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a point where one says, that's for family, that's for me.

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.

Yeah, I hear the truth. But this is my truth.

in North America, giving your name and talking about your personal life is something you do in public and it doesn't mean anything. In France, name exchanges amount to something of a commitment.

I'm so not stylish by nature, but I've learned to work with what I have.

We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

En el fondo la Maga tiene una vida personal, aunque me haya llevado tiempo darme cuenta. En cambio yo estoy vacío, una libertad enorme para soñar y andar por ahí, todos los juguetes rotos, ningún problema.

todos tenemos tres vidas: la pública, la privada y la secreta.

Figuring out what is your stuff and what is other people's stuff can be a lifelong journey.

Grief was a place, Sara understood, where a person went alone. It was like a room without doors, and what happened in that room, all the anger and the pain you felt, was meant to stay there, nobody's business but yours.

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool. But I think there are quite a few people, my father being one of them, who use curse words rather eloquently.

eyeing my face in that same accusatory way I've seen my entire life. As if I had begged in vitro for a birthmark, this personal affront to his sanitized, temperature-controlled world.

He portrayed Catherine as reserved, discreet, but possessed of strength and great dignity. She never spoke of the war, he said, nor of personal matters; as Laurent observed, 'the dictionary of Catherine Dior would not have many words within it.

Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.