Personalness Quotes & Sayings

We decide ourselves whether to do right or wrong, whether to be good or evil. For some, it is fear that keeps them within the law, but for others it is a greater sense of good. I do not think any religion can make a person good, or protect a good person from bad happening to him. — Kathleen Givens

Religion tells you to be sincere to yourself and be sincere to everyone else otherwise you cannot assimilate [attain] religion. — Dada Bhagwan

My view is that consciousness, the seat of "personalness," is the ultimate reality, and is also scientifically impenetrable. In other words, there is no scientific test one can postulate that would definitively prove its existence in another entity. We assume that other biological human persons, at least those who are at least acting conscious, are indeed conscious. But this too is an assumption, and this shared human consensus breaks down when we go beyond human experience (e.g., the debate on animal consciousness, and by extension animal rights). — Ray Kurzweil

Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action. — Jeanne De Salzmann

It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. — David Mamet

I come from the countryside. I come from a bunch of horticulture family members. My best friend was a farmer's boy. — Luke Evans

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. — Bill Cosby

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it. — Robert Downey Jr.

It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does. — Bret Easton Ellis

One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more than — Irvin D. Yalom

All marriages have their phases. — Robin Wright

Because it's good when you find one that does mean something. Makes all the empty ones worthwhile. — Katja Millay

I went to parochial grammar school, and I give thanks to the Catholic training because of course, they brought me to the heart of Jesus. — Tony Orlando