Personal Quotes
I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
The more you socialize the costs of personal liberty, the more license you give others to regulate it.
History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.
It is true that many Americans find the Commandments in accord with their personal beliefs. But we do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.
I used to believe that if my career was going great, then I was not entitled to a great personal life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe I can have it all.
As a personal matter, I stopped voting more than a decade ago, on the grounds that it helped me as an analyst not to think about making a choice in the voting booth.
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.
I'm loath to use my personal life to promote what I do, but at the same time, I don't like a journalist going away with no more than you could get off Wikipedia, where most of it's invented anyway.
For many many years, I've taught, not only leadership, but I've taught people that they need a personal growth plan. Growth is not an automatic process for you or me or anybody.
I have to talk about my movies. I have to give interviews to promote what I'm doing. But no one really knows my personal life. And if you don't have a personal life I feel bad for you.
Some people use the sexual energy particularly during intercourse to take personal power from each other.
The pathos of man is that he hungers for personal fulfillment and for a sense of community with others.
Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.
One of the things that's great is that Batman is a character that lends himself to very personal stories.
The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.
I've never once met a successful blogger who questioned the personal value of what she did.
It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.
As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.
My personal opinion is, how, if you never hung out with somebody, do you know them so well? I never hung out with that dude because the dude is a weirdo.
I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.
interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
This mode of electioneering suited neither my taste nor my principles. I thought it equally unsuitable to my personal character and to the station in which I am placed.
I create for each individual woman to reflect her definite sense of personal style and unique beauty
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.
At a certain point in my personal life, I went through a divorce and lost some people close to me.
It is very important that your career raises your awareness. If your career is lowering your personal power, then it has got to change.
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.
I wanted to create an environment in which more than just personal essays could be represented, and in which stranger approaches to making essays could be celebrated.
There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.
You identify with your self. You have a personal history. You have commitments. There are things that you want to experience and other things that you want to avoid.
If you have more personal power and you are in higher states of mind, then naturally you can see things and adhere to them or avoid them. Personal power is really the issue.
Personal power changes or shapes consciousness, and that is kundalini. Kundalini exists within us. Some people have more of it, some dimensions have more of it.
We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party.
Chalkboards being used inside the restaurant seem to be a good sign that the proprietors are proud of their food, and that's kind of nice, actually - it's a nice personal touch.
I've got personal views on the '60s. You can't have freedom without paying the price for it.
A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.
When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.
Character is not the enemy of self-expression and personal freedom, it is their necessary precondition.