personal nature Quotes

But you can't make someone be something they're not.

I'm not promiscuous by nature.

If you don't know yourself, you don't know your nature. If you don't know your nature, you don't know where to exist. By knowing your nature, knowing yourself, you know what to be and how to live. And that only comes from knowledge of self, knowing yourself.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

The only nature I'm interested in is my own nature.

I don't think I'd get caught up in the crazy side of the music industry because it's just not in my nature.

One of the things I've really come to realise is that the chances of arriving at a universal truth are increased if you remain absolutely faithful to the contingencies of your own experience and the vagaries of your own nature.

You're always just going to be who you are.

I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn't think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

I hold grudges, but I can't hate nobody; that's not my nature.

This may come as a surprise, given the nature of my job, but I am very guarded and contemplative. I'm not a naturally boisterous person.

I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.

I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

The medium of podcasting and the personal nature of it, the relationship you build with your listeners and the relationship they have with you - they could be just sitting there, chuckling and listening... there's nothing like that.

I'm a serious person by nature - sometimes too serious.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.

By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am.

A lot of different things had to come together over the years, accumulated experiences of a general and personal nature, before the idea and the decision were developed and then carried out.

That was the problem with the 'celibate' word because they don't consider for a moment that you'd rather not be, but you just are. I was never a sexual person.

I've never had like many friends, I've had a few. It's just something that's in my character, in my personality.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.