The Personal Quotes

#1. The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing
but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone.
Why alone?
He's alone so that we might never be alone.

C.J. Mahaney

#2. All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.

Stephen Hawking

#3. We fight wars from progressively great heights and distances, the blessings of technology steadily removing the personal human element from what was historically an extremely personal experience.

Steven Weber

#4. The exact meaning of Jeremiah is not certain: it may mean "the LORD exalts"; it may mean "the LORD hurls." What is certain is that "the LORD," the personal name of God, is in his name.

Eugene H. Peterson

#5. It doesn't matter where we begin the personal/political circle, but it matters desperately that we complete it.

Gloria Steinem

#6. A male editor I once worked with tried to dissuade me from the personal: "Who care about what happened to you?" The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.

It does.

Mona Eltahawy

#7. Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies.

Beatrice Webb

#8. Unwanted events occur and you lack certain skills for minimizing the personal impact.

Graeme Simsion

#9. I'm super happy to see the record doing its thing and for people to like it, but for me, I had a great victory just as a person. I overstepped countless obstacles by creating that record. And the record's a metaphor for the personal steps I [took] throughout the past year.

Justin Vernon

#10. It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

Shane Claiborne

#11. It isn't enough to have had an interesting or hilarious or tragic life. Art isn't anecdote. It's the consciousness we bring to bear on our lives. For what happened in the story to transcend the limits of the personal, it must be driven by the engine of what the story means.

Cheryl Strayed

#12. In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,

Philippe Starck

#13. I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.

Jeremy Northam

#14. Having gone through so many of the personal things I've gone through, its about creating an (online) space for girls to be heard. I don't profess to have all the answers. But Ask Elizabeth is a space where girls are not alone.

Elizabeth Berkley

#15. The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false.

Enya

#16. I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Daniel H. Pink

#17. The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man.

Swami Vivekananda

#18. I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

Karan Johar

#19. The affective modalities of semiosis, in Halliday's functional analysis, are most concerned with the imaginative and the personal functions. Consider for example the ways in which the dialogism I have described above accord with Halliday's insistence that the

Anonymous

#20. Me, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.

Frank Herbert

#22. You really don't create an authoritarian society unless you control the personal choices including the sexual choices of the people.

Hugh Hefner

#23. The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.

Oliver Hazard Perry

#24. Then he's got one shelf where all the personal stuff sits, as if quarantined,

Ben H. Winters

#25. When religious groups in a conflict eliminate the personal element and perceive themselves as representatives of collectives, heir actions tend to become more "radical" and "merciless." (Ch.3, by Jaco Cilliers, p. 48)

David R. Smock

#26. Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Carson McCullers

#27. It's two things: it's totally impersonal and it's totally personal, simultaneously. That's the nature of the mystical experience of life. Everything about life is impersonal, but you have a personal experience. And the bridge between the personal and the impersonal is called prayer.

Caroline Myss

#28. American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.

Kelli O'Hara

#29. Make no mistake, the point of cutting the personal income tax and the capital gains cut is to send an unmistakable message to business.

Bill Richardson

#30. No country should waste wireless spectrum. Especially not India, where the cellphone has become the personal computer.

Ram Shriram

#31. One of the things about the modern world is that the public and the private - which is not the same as the public and the personal - but the public and the private ... it's very, very much harder than it used to be to have things that are private and things that are public.

David Miliband

#32. I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

Dalai Lama

#33. Some is, I think, the personal in any act of writing. You find yourself caught up: you start a sentence, and it becomes revelatory, not just of the character, but of you as well.

David Bezmozgis

#34. Avoidance of experiences is a fixation and it binds you to the world, it binds you to the personal self.

Frederick Lenz

#35. The personal needs a base, a body to identify oneself with, just as a colour needs a surface to appear on.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#36. When distance and convenience sets in; the small, the various and the personal wither away.

Jane Jacobs

#37. The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Scilla Elworthy

#38. It should make perfect sense that if a man is a personal, self-consciously moral creature, and if a personal creature is made by a personal Creator, then the personal Creator must have a personal interest in the personal creatures He made.

Kevin Swanson

#39. Bill Gates is the pope of the personal computer industry. He decides who's going to build.

Larry Ellison

#40. It is a rather curious thing to have to divide one's life into personal and official compartments and temporarily put the personal side into its hidden compartment to be taken out again when one's official duties are at an end.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#41. It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money where your mouth is. And if you're not making those challenges at home, it's unlikely you'll make them in a larger setting.

Carrie Mae Weems

#42. All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

Rachel Bilson

#43. For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the details of one's life in the apprehension of others was to do something wondrously worth the telling. Our wondrous technologies might just save us all the personal bother. Kleos is a tweak away.

Rebecca Goldstein

#44. The pursuit of holiness is thus no mere private hobby, nor merely a path for a select few, but a vital element in Christian mission strategy today. The world's greatest need is the personal holiness of Christian people.

J.I. Packer

#45. In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.

Edward Kennedy

#46. what fuels human unhappiness in both the personal and political realm can be boiled down to these three key emotions - anxiety, fear, and shame.

Harriet Lerner

#47. The things I'm saying in my records are always me. I write about things in my life that I'm experiencing. When you hear the personal meaningful records that aren't about partying, they stem from my life.

Mike Stud

#48. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#49. Our prosperity as a nation depends upon the personal financial prosperity of each of us as individuals.

George S. Clason

#50. My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.

Yael Naim

#51. I don't want to make more friends. I have four kids, I have plenty of friends, and all the personal relationships I need.

Guy Kawasaki

#52. The personal eloquence of other people expressing aspects of nature and human condition inspire us, as do persons whom exhibit courage to gain strength when dealing with the hardships and struggles of a mortal life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#53. The personal is the political. That's an old tagline.

Frances Stark

#54. I love factoids. It's hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it's stopping the character. Part of it is the decision to keep things where you want to train the spotlight. For me, it's the personal side. I always ask, How does the person inside the character relate to this?

Adam Braver

#55. This is women's moment to shift the tectonic plates of power on both the personal life and the leadership levels.

Gloria Feldt

#56. The charade of politics is to make voters think that the personal narrative of the candidate affects the operation of the corporate state. It doesn't really matter on the fundamental issues whether the President is Republican or Democratic.

Chris Hedges

#57. The personal is political.

Shulamith Firestone

#58. You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.

Will Oldham

#59. The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

Hedy Lamarr

#60. Actual artists, and despite their reputation for chaos, most artists keep their supplies and work spaces scrupulously tidy. It's the personal lives that get messy. Dusk,

Susan Juby

#61. Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#62. Third, one who is "in love" is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. "If we have any purpose in mind when we fall in love it is to terminate our own loneliness and perhaps ensure this result through marriage.

Gary Chapman

#63. It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge
to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carrie Mae Weems

#64. The personal opinions of the editors have no kind of weight in the eyes of the public: the only use of a journal is, that it imparts the knowledge of certain facts, and it is only by altering or distorting those facts that a journalist can contribute to the support of his own views.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#65. Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

Tom Robbins

#66. All matter/space has some degree of "self" in it, and this self, or anyway some aspect of the personal, is something which infuses all matter/space and everything we know as matter but now think to be mechanical.

Christopher Alexander

#67. Money can't buy everything, but the personal magnetism that enables a man to make lots of money can, indeed, obtain most things.

Fernando Pessoa

#68. The entire life of the personal ego is continually in the grip of wanting, i. e., an attempt to seek fulfilment of desires through things that change and vanish. But there can be no real fulfilment through the transient things

Meher Baba

#69. Self is one, personal and impersonal.
But it is only on the personal level that one comes to know the Self.
When you know the Self, you realize there are two types of knowledge.
First is to know how to exist and second is to know the all-pervading spirit.

Gian Kumar

#70. The Web is actually a coming together of three technologies, if you like: the hypertext, the personal computer, and the network. So, the network we had, and the personal computers were there, but people didn't use them, because they didn't know what to use them for, except maybe for a few games.

Robert Cailliau

#71. Music can also evoke worlds very different from the personal, remembered worlds of events, people, places we have known.

Oliver Sacks

#72. Peace can be threatening because peace is the absence of problems and conflict. There is something, perhaps in the personal you, that does not want freedom or peace, or the absence of problems. There's something that wants the opposite.

Eckhart Tolle

#73. The personal appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you.

Marco Polo

#74. Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

Tariq Ramadan

#75. Prayer is not simply a soliloquy, a mere exercise in therapeutic self-analysis, or a religious recitation. Prayer is discourse with the personal God Himself.

R.C. Sproul

#76. The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

Harold H. Greene

#77. America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.

Mark Steyn

#78. Destiny was like the passage of time, however, immutable and unforgiving and uninterested in the personal opinion of those who breathed.

J.R. Ward

#79. The tradition of the personal essay is full of self-appointed outcasts. In that tradition, I am not a poet or the press, but an essayist, a citizen thinker.

Eula Biss

#80. Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

Jurgen Klinsmann

#81. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.

Elizabeth Cronkhite

#82. It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#83. The details of the personal expenses that executives put on the company tab often are not known because loopholes in federal disclosure rules let publicly traded companies generally avoid disclosing the perks they give executives along with pay and stock options.

Alex Berenson

#84. The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

Pete Seeger

#85. According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Allen Tate

#86. From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal appropriation of the gospel and the gospel's universal reach.

Stanley Hauerwas

#87. The weave of the personal and the political finally proves as irresistible as it is moving, partly because it has been drawn from extraordinary life.

Manohla Dargis

#88. Slang surely, as it is called, comes of, and breathes of the personal

John Henry Newman

#89. The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.

Michael Franti

#90. Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result.

Jacqueline Bisset

#91. The Mayor of Boston says he won't allow Chick-Fil-A in Boston. Amazing that a mayor now has the power to stop commerce because he personally disagrees with the PERSONAL views of the CEO of a company.

Mike Huckabee

#92. Yet the personal choice to smoke is ... the same kind of choice as the driver who downed the beers, and then the telephone pole. - Open letter from the tobacco industry, 1988

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#93. The personal ego must be suppressed and replaced with the 'universal ego.'

Walter Russell

#94. They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.

David Nicholls

#95. The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

James Madison

#96. The personal freedom to think & feel & speak authentically & to be conscious of so doing is the quality that distinguishes us as human.

Rollo May

#97. For Christians it's always a love game ... that He is love itself ... Indeed, some have suggested that one way of understanding the Spirit is to see the Spirit as the personal love which the Father has for the Son and the Son for the Father.

N. T. Wright

#98. What I've tried to do is combine both my personal experiences with scientific research. I like to cross the divide between the personal world and the scientific world.

Temple Grandin

#99. On the personal side, family is really important to me. I have a big family - five kids and 12 grandkids - so keeping that going is wonderful. And I do a lot of philanthropy. I'm chairman of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Charles Schwab

#100. In Washington, the public and the private intertwine in such a way that they can't be easily separated. This is the city where the personal and the political are most closely linked.

Katharine Graham