Famous Sayings

I personally

This usually means you are giving your personal opinion based on your own experience…so you say  “I personally…”

Reader’s Digest recently said this was one of the most irritating English phrases but I disagree.  Why would they say that?  Thoughts?

I think saying ‘I personally” allows us to say things which we feel strongly about without coming across as trying to proselytize others or influence them when we really are trying to do so.  Read more... (128 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had special love of freedom and courage.

- Ronald Reagan

A quick comment:

A while back, Ronald Reagan passed away.  His charisma and beliefs have had a profound effect on history.  Yet his strength is that he realized that what we’d considered self-achieved and self-wrought was actually made to be all along…was actually divine by design and purpose.  Read more... (297 words, estimated 1:11 mins reading time)