Person Quotes
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
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I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion to a person, and that there's a mixture of both in there. It's just I think that's a little more true to life. It's not always purely one way or the other.
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The militant Muslim is the person who beheads the infidel, while the moderate Muslim holds the feet of the victim.
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Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.
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The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.
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I have no intention of dying young and being some stinking rock'n'roll person.
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I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year. It's very character-building.
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Show me a worrying person and I will show you a person who does not know how to relax.
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Fortunate is the person who has learned that the most certain way to 'get' is to first 'give' through some sort of useful service.
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I'm a pretty romantic person, I love little notes.
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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She could make more phone calls in a day than any human being I ever worked with, ... She always could outwork any young person. She pushed like there was no tomorrow.
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[Revealing character] can't be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.
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There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
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Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.
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You cannot teach a person something he does not already know, you can only bring what he does know to his awareness.
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Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.
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I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.
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How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life.
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
