Person Quotes

• Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Experience
  • Person
  • Moon

• You have only 30 seconds with a new person. I will give you a hug so you know I’m real, and then you’re real too.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Have
  • Seconds
  • 30

• I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Never
  • Person
  • Become

• A person without a memory is either a child or an amnesiac. A country without a memory is neither a child nor an amnesiac, but neither is it a country.

  

  Mary Astor
  • Country
  • Memory
  • Amnesiac

• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Person
  • Villain
  • Cares

• If you want to be the person you ought to be, you've got to welcome competition.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Person
  • Competition

• The guarantee of equal protection cannot mean one thing when applied to one individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • Color
  • Protection
  • Guarantee

• Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Love
  • Difference
  • For Him

• You can be highly concentrated on a person, on a problem, and be so good at excluding all other material that that becomes not just the focus of your experience, but practically the sole content of your experience, everything else falling by the wayside.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Problem

• I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

  

  LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
  • Choose
  • Going
  • Edge

• Everyone asks me about being so worried or thinking about existence as if I'm the only person who can't understand why a tree grows the way it does or why a person is in power when they're not that great. These are questions everyone has.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I will tell you this, though, every person in that convention centre, we just learned about that today and so I have directed that we have all the available resources to get to that convention centre to make sure that they have the food and water, the medical care that they need.

  

  Paula Zahn
  • Today
  • Food
  • Water

• People can demand someone they've never met be arrested and thrown in jail forever because they know it's never going to happen and they're never going to see this person.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Forever
  • Demand

• An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Knowledge
  • Person
  • Educated

• The person who is incapable of making a mistake, is incapable of anything.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Mistake
  • Person
  • Incapable

• In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

  

  Cate Tiernan
  • Each Other
  • Fairytales
  • Happily

• I'm much more of a realist. I'm really practical. I'm the kind of person that calls my business manager and says, OK, if it were all to end today, how many months do I have to live?

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Live
  • Business
  • Today

• When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.

  

  Angela Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

  

  Idries Shah
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Means

• I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Person
  • Bohemian
  • Elitist

• The bottom is a monotonous, dreary, unprofitable place for any person. That is why I have taken the time to describe how lowly beginnings may be circumvented by proper planning.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Time
  • Why
  • May

• when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

  

  Alice Thomas Ellis
  • Person
  • View
  • Implores

• I've always had a sense of groundedness as a person. I think that's helped me. My mother sort of beat into me the notion of humility, and I think my focus has always been on the right things or the things that I'm passionate about, which is just simply the work.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Focus

• Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with a non-hungover person at the controls)."

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • Sex
  • Controls

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