What someone’s lies reveal about them (aspirations to being an accomplished writer, fantasies of an exotic history and a cosmopolitan family) are always sadder than the fact of the lies themselves. These inventions illuminate the...

the way you look defines who you are. You might argue for your soul, or your heart, but everyone else in the world will judge you on your big nose or your weak chin. Six...

I’m told I’m very charming when people do what I want.

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never...

I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.

He realized without being aware of it that he had had the possibility to know her, before – had he known her? – but now that had changed. The possibility was gone. Now no one...

He doesn’t seem to have the personality for a No. 2: He is a fighter. He’s not one who will just accept being behind. He is still progressing, and Ferrari can only be good for...

He’s got great personality. That’s the first thing you notice about him. He’s a great guy.

Our attitude is like a mirror that reveals and reflects the contents of our personality

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people,” I say. “Maybe we’re accumulating these new selves all the time.

At first, it was hard to tell her personality, because of the jet lag. And she was sick.

Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

Trust your eyes, Trust your tummy, Trust yourself. That’s how you know who to listen to.

This group is rich in talent and personality. They embody the spirit of Wake Forest field hockey and I look forward to their contributions as student-athletes. I have faith in their ability to keep up...

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.

Every organized religion holds that certain behaviors, rituals, personalities, places, and/or books are sacred. These organized teachings are proper in their own place, but they are mere options for the one infused with devotion. To...

I was immediately struck by her warm and welcoming personality. Regardless of social status, she treated everyone with equal engagement.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Beauty lies in the mind, inner soul….Beauty lies in the innocence, appreciation, understanding, warmth, expressions, caring nature, behavior towards others, the depth of understanding the situations, the kind of sufferings, struggles, losses, difficulties, sorrows, happiness-...

When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.

Yeah, we did hear those comments. That’s just his personality. I’m sure he didn’t mean anything malicious by it. I’m sure he was just trying to fire up his team.

A person only likes his friend to the degree he relates and connects to his character.

There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she’s given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him...

It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill’s sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure ambition should be so much ignored or even disallowed.

Excitement is a crossroad which runs in all directions. No man lacks personality; he just never connected with you at the intersection.

From the heart arise unknowable impulses as well as conscious feelings, moods, and wishes. The heart, too, has its reasons and is the center of perception and understanding. Finally, the heart is the seat of...

I know a lot about forming personal connections with people. Not from, you know, personal interaction or anything, but from reading about it alone, in silence.

The personality of the offense, that’s still to be determined,

We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of...

Wisdom is not measured by age ,Intelligence is not measured by grades ,Personality is not measured by what others say

… an excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts.

I don’t act my age, I act my personality.

The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be...

The formation of Stalin’s character is particularly important because the nature of his rule was so personal.

Before I can say I am, I was. Heraclitus and I, prophets of flux, know that the flux is composed of parts that imitate and repeat each other. Am or was, I am cumulative, too....

The clothes or accessories you do or don’t wear are a statement, a reflection of yourself; that is why you should always try to wear ‘who you are’ not anyone else.

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how many different people are there not – Heaven help us – all having lodgment at one time...

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

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.

The best compliment for a man is to be treated like a true leader; one who is real, correct and righteous in his approach, attitude, temperament, behavior and most importantly, character.

I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment...

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

Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.

Male or female, if my name were either Don or Dawn, I’d be up at sunrise to celebrate the glory that is me.

If the only thing that your partner consistently says about you, is how good you look, then you would be in a deep trouble, because there are countless of beautiful people all around the world....

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all...

For most of the things children do, parents are responsible. A good seed, noble thoughts and upbringing deeds can determine the character and personality feeds of our children. The amount of money we spend on...

Maybe we all have a dark place inside of us, a place where dark thoughts and darker dreams live, but it doesn’t have to become who we are.

By developing a contaminated, stigmatized identity, the child victim takes the evil of the abuser into herself and thereby preserves her primary attachments to her parents. Because the inner sense of badness preserves a relationship,...

Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn’t life’s business to reward merit, why should it be life’s business to give us warm, comfortable feelings towards its end? What possible evolutionary...