Personal Quotes
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I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
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Grading creative writing is always an ethical dilemma. But what you brought up about grading personal stories versus the research paper is of course a truly volatile issue in teaching memoir or the personal essay, because there's no pretense that the narrator is a character.
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It's not personal, it's strictly business.
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He thought that I was after him for a feather--- The white one in his tail: like one who takes everything said as personal to himself.
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Faith must be tested, because it can be turned into a personal possession only through conflict.
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I would say my return to my faith is - it's a very personal thing.
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Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny.
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Those who have entered the U.S. illegally, their personal possessions and belongings too easily get lost as they are processed and travel through the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol system, the enormous amount of belongings, such as extra clothing, socks, shoes and personal items such as rosaries, Bibles, belts, underwear, toothbrushes, soap, was in many ways incomprehensible (to me), and I am certain much of this was not meant to be discarded.
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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Let no man be the object of your jealousy, and when you compete with one another let it not be for the personal advantage of this man or that, but to ensure the safety and prosperity of the city.
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Acting is very personal. I don't want to be like anybody else. There are positions I would like to be in - like Meryl Streep's, for instance.
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The one thing about me is that I keep my personal life away from my sporting life. And, when I am training for a fight, that is my focus.
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I think it's more likely that we can make positive changes happen on environment and military issues if states begin to secede. I don't think it's question of personal lifestyle preference or some sort of parochial identification with your state. I think it's an absolute moral demand that something be done to create a government with some power that can be controlled by the residents of its territory. That was supposedly the idea in creating the United States, but it doesn't exist now and we have to make it exist even if it's piece by piece, part of the United States at a time.
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Personal answers to ultimate questions. That is what we seek.
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Everything is intimate Nothing is personal.
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I think of veganism humbly and holistically. It's about taking personal responsibility in a world so full of needless suffering. It's challenging one's self to open one's eyes and question society's assumptions and habits. It's about critical thinking and compassion and how we would like to see the world evolve.
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I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. Besides its production values as a film, it has its story, its intrigue, its drama.
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We just kind of vibed out and I think it was more about a personal connection. We connected on a different level.
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Supercomputers will achieve one human brain capacity by 2010, and personal computers will do so by about 2020.
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The protection of personal information stored on our nation's computer systems is critical to public trust in those networks and to the health of our economy
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National identity is something that's directly connected to our personal experiences and the decisions we make, the roads we decide to take at certain points in our life.
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One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.
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Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
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The beauty of running is its simplicity; the beauty of runners is that we all have a similar drive to improve. We are either trying to run a personal best, or toeing the line for the first time, which will snowball into a future of trying to run personal bests. We road racers are a tight community of mileage-happy, limit-pushing athletes.
