Personality Quotes

In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

~ Thornton Wilder

Your wishes and desires make clear who you are.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If you do not like a certain behavior in others, look within yourself to find the roots of what discomforts you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I find it terrifying. One of my basic goals is to subject my nervous system to as little total terror as possible. The cruel paradox of course is that this kind of makeup usually goes hand in hand with a delicate nervous system that's extremely easy to terrify.

~ David Foster Wallace

What's fun for other people may not be fun for you- and vice versa.

~ Gretchen Rubin

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

~ Haruki Murakami

He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts. It's what distinguishes all great art from the other kind.

~ John Fowles

Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.

~ Emily Gabriela Vira

An intelligence completely dissociated from the physical, or at least an impression of it, was a strange, curiously limited and almost perverse thing, and the precise form that your physicality took had a profound, in some ways defining influence on your personality.

~ Iain M. Banks

For a second, Hardyy felt sorry for her. She really was messed up. 'Nobody is perfect Cheyenne. We can all do better, but do it for yourself, not for me. Not for anyone else.

~ M. Leighton

In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

~ Charlotte Brontë

She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.

~ Ernest Hemingway

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.

~ Milan Kundera

Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)

~ Robert M. Sapolsky

Love is more than just a pretty face with a nice personality.

~ Rebecca A. Rogers

It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom.

~ Olan Rogers

People forget history nowadays,that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one had lived.

~ Aporva Kala

A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Maybe that's why people don't like you. You make it obvious you don't care whether people like you or not. That makses some people angry.

~ Haruki Murakami

Bioenergetics is an adventure in self-discovery. It differs from similar explorations into the nature of the self by attempting to understand the human personality in terms of the human body. Most previous explorations focused their investigations on the mind.

~ Alexander Lowen

Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.

~ Anthony Liccione

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

~ Brian James

Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing with ideas.

~ Paul Johnson

Walter Parmenter sometimes seemed to his daughter a restless subterranean force held together by rituals.

~ Anne Rivers Siddons

The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of his own shortcomings; second, a perfect liberalism, not the sort he read about in the newspapers, but the sort he had in his blood, which made him treat all people, whatever their rank or status, in a perfectly equal and identical way; and, third - most important - a perfect indifference to the business he was occupied with, owing to which he never got carried away and never made mistakes.

~ Leo Tolstoy

He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had none of the problems that Shadow had. Ainsel had never been married. Mike Ainsel had never been interrogated on a freight train by Mr. Wood an Mr. Stone. Televisions did not speak to Mike Ainsel (You want to see Lucy's tits? asked a voice in his head).

~ Neil Gaiman

Listening to Leonard, Madeleine felt impoverished by her happy childhood. She never wondered why she acted the way she did, or what effect her parents had had on her personality. Being fortunate had dulled her powers of observation.

~ Jeffrey Eugenides

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

~ Lauren Barnholdt

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her friend ascend to the top deck in her new panda-eyed makeup and had a mauvais quart d'heure, wondering whether she herself had any personality at all or was in truth only the accumulation and reflection of all the things she had read in books and seen on television.

~ Zadie Smith

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

~ H. L. Mencken

Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

~ Ambrose Bierce

He was not of an age but for all time.

~ Ben Jonson

As time requireth a man of marvellous mirth and past times and sometimes of as sad gravity as who say: a man for all seasons.

~ Robert Whittington

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

~ Oscar Wilde

Dogs often remind us of the human ail-too human. Cats never.

~ Mason Cooley

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

~ Janis Joplin

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good but not religious-good.

~ Thomas Hardy