Personalia Quotes & Sayings

Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful. So some real happening at the base of an account may be reconstructed by shrinking the account down to the physically possible. — Ramsay MacMullen

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother. — Mona Simpson

Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body. — Daniel G. Amen

It is not easy to make an effort and to remember all the little personalia of some one one has loved very much, and by whom one has been loved. — Isa Bowman

The castle's predecessor, the Roman villa, had been unfortified, depending on Roman law and the Roman legions for its ramparts. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone. — James Dobson