Personality Quotes - Page 11

• When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Drinking, Food, Beer

  Jimmy Breslin (1986). “Table money”

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• Until your personality has exhausted its obsession with running the show, your soul isn’t given the space to express itself. Your personality can be threatened by your soul, because your personality has controlled your life for a long time and doesn’t want to give up control. Your personality is like a wild horse that tries to throw off the rider trying to tame it. The rider is your soul.

  Corinne McLaughlin

  Running, Horse, Giving Up

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• The phrase 'nature and nurture' is a convenient jingle of words, for it separates under two distinct heads the innumerable elements of which personality is composed. Nature is all that a man brings with himself into the world; nurture is every influence without that affects him after his birth.

  Francis Galton

  Men, Two, Jingles

  Francis Galton (1874). “English Men of Science: Their Nature and Nurture”, p.12

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• Enjoy yourself. If you can't enjoy yourself, enjoy someone else.

  Jack Schaefer

  Enjoy, Enjoy Yourself, Ifs

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• Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the."

  Mary McCarthy

  Funny, Lying, Writing

  Dick Cavett Show (television program), Jan. 1980.

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• He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Thinking, Doe, Facts

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• He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Mind

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• He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Force, Sorrowful, Glad

  Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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• Hey now, you're an all star, get your game on go, ...Only shooting stars break the mold.

  Greg Camp

  Stars, Games, Mold

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• I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

  Jane Welsh Carlyle

  Accepting Reality, Persons

  Letter to Thomas Carlyle, 7 May 1822, in C. R. Sanders et al. (eds.) 'The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle' (1970) vol. 2

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• I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.

  Isaac Newton

  Assessment, Body, Folly

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• I could...see in Emerson...that had he lived in those days when the world was made, he might have offered some valuable suggestions.

  Herman Melville

  Suggestions, World, Might

  "The Letters of Herman Melville" edited by Merrell R. Davis and William H. Gilman, (p. 78), 1960.

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• I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

  Patricia Moyes

  Women, Passion, People

  Patricia Moyes (1961). “Down Among the Dead Men”

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• I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

  Jeannette Rankin

  Country, War, Want

  Quoted in Hannah Josephson, Jeannette Rankin: First Lady in Congress (1974)

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• I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

  James A. Garfield

  Success, Believe, Suffering

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• I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl.

  Albert Camus

  Girl, Firsts, Conversation

  Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

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• I'm not fancy. I'm what I appear to be.

  Janet Reno

  Fancy, Accepting Reality

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• If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

  Arthur Ashe

  Victory, Why Me, Disaster

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• It takes two to create a heaven, but hell can be accomplished by one.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Two, Heaven, Hell

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• It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.

  Alastair Sim

  Happiness, Success, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

  Norman Cousins

  Math, Two, Trying

  1979 In the Daily Telegraph, 17 Jul.

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• The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Thinking, Today

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• There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

  Fanny Burney

  Running, Hate, Jail

  'Camilla' (1796) bk. 3, ch. 12

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• There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Miracle, Oscars, Absolutely Nothing

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