Persons Quotes
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
Sarah Dessen -
I think [nancy Reagan] was a very controlled and controlling person, because she was so scared all the time and because she had such an inner sense of panic.
Cynthia Nixon
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Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.
Angelina Jolie -
It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
Edith Schaeffer -
There is a child in all of us, a person who believes in a glorious future.
Jasmine Guy -
Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.
Kirk Franklin -
I'm the kind of person who would rather rock in my rocking chair when I'm old and regret a few things that I did than to sit there and regret that I never tried.
Dolly Parton -
I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.
Georges St-Pierre
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Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
Nicki Minaj -
If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.
Justin Timberlake NSYNC -
The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.
Xunzi -
I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
Whitney Houston -
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
Andreas Gursky -
There are persons who seem to have overcome obstacles and by character and perseverance to have risen to the top. But we have no record of the numbers of able persons who fall by the wayside, persons who, with enough encouragement and opportunity, might make great contributions.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits
David Jeremiah -
I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am a friend of their persons, if they be good subjects, so am I a vowed enemy, and do denounce mortal war to their errors.
King James I -
The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
Andrew Vachss -
I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.
John Travolta -
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
Whitney Houston -
I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often.
Brian Wilson
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A person who uses party as a verb is a person who will walk into a shop and walk out wearing a rubber jumpsuit.
Cynthia Heimel -
All well bred persons lie - Besides, you are a woman; you must never speak what you think.
William Congreve -
There is no real limit to how much better a person who really commits to getting better can get. Every manager has the potential to become an excellent manager for the rest of his or her career.
Brian Tracy -
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost