Personal Quotes

It is my personal plan to assassinate by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.

And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

I was really happy with my race, though. I beat my personal best by 1.2 seconds.

It was inevitable that in doing this I should arrive at new results, and it is perhaps understandable that in the end I have felt impelled to present these results not only in the dry form of a catalogue, but also in a more connected and personal one.

I felt that what is personal is political.

Yes, all my songs come from personal experience and relationships.

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.

Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

Everyone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.

Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.

James Stewart was so kind and considerate and had such personal integrity.

I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the passion for your job and the professional and personal satisfaction that you get out of doing what you do that motivates you.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned.

But you don't get into a business because of personal tastes.

I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.