Quotes About Personal

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

The political is personal.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.

It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional.

Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself.

Your clothes should be as important as your skin.