#persona

As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#personal-responsibility #trials

... no one can ever save someone else, you know? We can only save ourselves. You know that, don't you? ↗

— Carrie Jones

#self-determination #self-determination

I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet. But I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered? ↗

— Lauren Barnholdt

#people #personality #introvert

As an actor, when you encounter a psychopathic personality, you naturally want to make him 'bigger than life,' as the Americans say. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#bigger #encounter #him #life #make

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them. ↗

— James Branch Cabell

#life-lessons #personality #society #life

They love without measure those whom they will soon hate without reason. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#hate #love #love

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breathed in peacefulness. Since both were shy they never talked about themselves. Neither knew about the other at all. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#men #mountains #nature #personality #women

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#generation #good #his #immortal #mr

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money. ↗

— Dave Barry

#defined #experts #money #own #personal

But in this Congress, accountability is just a catch phrase, usually directed elsewhere. Demands to personal responsibility or corporate accountability abound, but rarely congressional accountability or fiscal responsibility. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#accountability #catch #catch phrase #congress #congressional