Powerful Personalities Quotes

#1. Through college she had been a feminist - basically: she shaved her legs, but just not often enough, she liked to say.

Lorrie Moore

#2. That was a really shitty move Liam! How would you like it if I turned into an animal when we were arguing?

Abby Niles

#3. Phobias are powerful vehicles for aggressive feelings. They condense anxiety. Intrusive phobias aren't part of general personalities, they just kick in at key moments. They're a defence against intense trauma, fear of intimacy, stuff like that.

Christopher Fowler

#4. There is a reason ladies swoon over rogues. They are dominant personalities," Jason said. "And they fall for soldiers because of the powerful image they put out.

Sarah M. Eden

#5. I never dreamed about being President, I wanted to be Willie Mays.

George W. Bush

#6. There are personalities so powerful that they leave their stamp on any place they inhabit. Their presence is always there, like a spoor, whether or not they themselves are.

Caroline Llewellyn

#7. When I first came to the States, I thought I had a perfect American accent, and then I was abruptly becoming aware that it wasn't. So I did have to work on it a little bit, but I was hesitant working on it because I thought it was good.

Joel Kinnaman

#8. I've gotten bored with jazz to the point where I wouldn't mind something bad happening. Slapping hurts, but at some point it'll wake you up. I feel like jazz needs a big-ass slap.

Robert Glasper

#9. Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.

Sarah Dunant

#10. Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.

Mohsin Hamid

#11. They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Albert Einstein

#12. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.

Friedrich Nietzsche