#personal

The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#cost #diminution #personality #rewards #society

On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. ↗

— Bill Budge

#boring #choose #exciting #i #i am

Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bad #been #billions #brown #confirmed

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an "ethic." ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#appropriate #else #ethic #happen #i

And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility. ↗

— John Boehner

#back #celebrate #constitution #earned #economic

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. ↗

— George Eliot

#entertain #grounds #liking #make #make up

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#continual #extinction #personality #progress #self-sacrifice

Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating. ↗

— Brian Boitano

#established #i #life #move #move on

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love. ↗

— Eminem

#best #buy #car #deck #find

I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term. ↗

— Jim Bolger

#always #attracted #democracy #election #fixed