Personal Quotes

I just hope I can get another personal best. If I can do that, I'll be satisfied.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

There are many artists that I present that I admit I like less than I do others. But I think that they warrant being presented by my own, personal standards.

Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.

You must develop personal contacts if you want to be successful.

It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

Now, since I'm a husband and father, discrimination against women isn't just political, it's personal.

Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

One of the key issues will be personal honour vs. the good of the many, and unforeseen consequences.

This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

It's always sad if anybody you know has a personal problem.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

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 understand that it would be smart, career-wise, to line up something, but it wouldn't be smart for my personal life or my sanity. Some people thrive when they're working. I thrive when I'm hanging out with my friends and doing yoga.

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.

And there was a real shedding of the old dogma, like boundaries of morality were being broken down and everybody was into the new party mode of just loving on each other. Which destroyed thousands of us. I lost 16 of my personal friends through that lifestyle.

I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.

It's hard to actually take details from your personal life and apply them a scene because, as much as you can identify with a feeling, you just get muddled. As soon as you start bringing your own stuff in, it's like, 'No, that's not right.' You're playing a different person. You can relate, but you have to leave that stuff at the door.

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.

We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

My fellow citizens, the American Presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.

Terri's death brings to a close a very tragic, human and personal event that has left everyone with a feeling of emptiness, regardless of what side of the issue you may have been on.