Quotes About Personal Description

#1. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes
no other marks or brands recollected.

Abraham Lincoln

#2. If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#3. Let the children play, let the children be children! And let us wish the same thing for the adults, let them also be children, especially when they turn into a boring creature!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

N. Robert Hammer

#5. This art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of energy in our great men.

J. A. Hadfield

#6. It is better to appear foolish serving God than to appear wise serving the devil.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Before it became a ubiquitous part of urban life, Starbucks was, in most American cities, a radically new idea.

Virginia Postrel

#8. People make life. The more people, the more life.

Margery Wilson

#9. It is always a pleasure to see what NYC, London, Paris and Milan have to offer.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#10. I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

James Taylor

#11. Excuse me a moment, princess. I have to go play with the puppies.

Julie Kagawa

#12. Why, Maysie? What more do you need me to tell you? Haven't I already handed my fucking guts to you on a platter? What else do you need to hear?

A Meredith Walters

#13. The scientistic faith in a science that will one day not only fulfill, but eliminate, personal self-conception through objectifying self-description is not science, but bad philosophy.

Jurgen Habermas

#14. Government exists only for the good of the governed.

Pythagoras

#15. Phyllida's hair was where her power resided. It was expensively set into a smooth dome, like a band shell for the presentation of that long-running act, her face.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#16. In order to protect the honour of her motherland, she had betrayed the trust of her mother.

Debajani Mohanty

#17. The oil companies are regulated by the federal government. They can't drill on land nor in American waters without permission from the feds. Many Republicans want to drill baby drill but what's the point if all the oil goes to China? Increased production obviously doesn't mean lower prices for us.

Bill O'Reilly

#18. Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

Georges Duhamel

#19. Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Silver RavenWolf