Quotes About Personal

Cubans tend to have personal and complex relationships with Fidel Castro, often combining feelings of veneration, respect, or love with frustration or even hate.

I don't think I'll be getting married. - Cat

We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history—even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

Or perhaps it's that same paradox again: the history that happens underneath our noses ought to be the clearest, and yet it's the most deliquescent. We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history—even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?

If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it's yours.

Die Bücher sagen: Sie hat es getan, weil. Das Leben sagt: Sie hat es getan. In den Büchern werden einem die Dinge erklärt; im Leben nicht. Es überrascht mich nicht, dass manche Leute Bücher vorziehen. Bücher verleihen dem Leben einen Sinn. Das Problem dabei ist nur, dass die Leben, denen sie Sinn verleihen, die Leben anderer Leute sind, niemals das eigene.

Sometimes your secrets are your only value.

She was still an assistant and like assistants all over corporate America, but especially in Hollywood, orderly women like Nevin and Goldstein were quite accustomed to invisibly supplying the warm, personal touch on behalf of their bosses. Thousands of gifts and notes were passed back and forth by powerful people who didn't have a clue that they were being so very thoughtful.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...

The idea was that everything personal was political; in fact, henceforth nothing was supposed to be regarded as 'personal' or private.

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

Was being seen the cost of the right to see? No, the worst of it was that my fate was too personal, too special. Unlike hunger, unrequited love, unemployment, sickness, bankruptcy, natural calamity, criminal exposure, my suffering was nothing I endured in common with other men. My misfortune was forever mine alone. Anyone at all could disregard me completely without feeling the slightest twinge of conscience. And I was not even permitted to protest that disregard.

Fiecare îÅŸi are propria lui filosofie, care nu i se potriveÅŸte decît lui.

I deliberately let him stew in uncertainty, adding now and then an ill-tempered thrust. I didn't bear him any personal grudge. I was doubtless only trying to take my revenge against the convention of faces.

the place where we store the true parts of our soul, away from the rest of the world.

The personal God reflects an important religious insight: that no supreme value can be less than human.

O c?l?torie în str?fundurile minÅ£ii implic? mari riscuri personale, deoarece s-ar putea s? nu fim în stare s? suport?m ce g?sim acolo

instead of waiting for God to descend from on high, I should deliberately create a sense of him for myself.

we may need to find a way of posing Socratic questions that lead to personal insight rather than simply repeating the facts as we see them yet again. We

When we read the Bible, we learn. However, when we write out biblical commands in a way that is personal to us, we allow the Word to take root deep within our hearts. This will help us the next time we are faced with a challenging situation and need to use words wisely. When we have trained our brain to recall and apply biblical nonnegotiables, we are equipped to speak, act, and react in ways that honor God.

Cada cual tiene su Austen particular

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

Real evil wasn't about bending the law to suit justice: evil was acting out of small, intensely personal expedience and losing sight of the bigger picture so often that you never got it back again.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.