Person Quotes

• Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Our lIfe

• Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Themselves
  • Center
  • Map

• The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Person
  • Conscience

• When a new person comes in, you can't help but evolve. Steve comes from a singer/songwriter background, whereas Perkins and I come from more of a jamming and experimental background, and I think what we came up with is a great combination of songs and musicianship.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Great
  • Combination
  • Comes

• While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Opportunity
  • Person
  • Slave

• I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Work
  • Politics
  • Philosophy

• We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • Person
  • Responsible

• There were worse things to be than sexist. For example, you could be the sort of person who pinched your fingers together while using the words “teeny weeny.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Together
  • Words
  • Sexist

• Anwar Sadat once said that if you see a good person with admirable qualities, try to adapt those qualities to yourself, and he was such a great man.

  

  Harry Hamlin
  • Qualities
  • Great Man
  • Anwar Sadat

• Little by little a person reaches forty and fifty and sixty, and feels more complete. God could've thrown full blown prophets flying through the cosmos in an instant.

  

  Coleman Barks
  • God
  • Complete
  • Instant

• Ordinarily, I am the person who falls in love quickly and somewhat inappropriately and then goes on to destroy what is a good thing. That's always been my style. So, you know: I get it. And I feel right now the way I imagine all those guys felt with me. And I have to say, for the first time in my life, I feel something approaching compassion for them.

  

  Sarah Dunn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Style

• I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Person
  • My Mother
  • Abode

• It's maybe every third person now (who calls out 'Norm!' when they see me). It used to be every other person. It's faded a bit, but not too much. They're always going to remember me that way. I decided a long time ago that if I'm going to let this make me crazy, I'm going to be certifiable, so I just roll with it.

  

  George Wendt
  • Remember
  • Person
  • Certifiable

• The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Family
  • Love
  • Sexual

• You are the only person you can actually change.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Change
  • Person

• Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Person
  • Part

• I'm a very colorful person.

  

  Ravyn Lenae
  • Person
  • Colorful

• I do think that something of the effect I have on people is to put everything on an edge where they're both infatuated with a kind of charmingness happening in the person or in the writing, and also flatly terrified by a revelation or acceptance of revelation that's almost happening, never quite totally happening.

  

  Anne Carson
  • People
  • Writing
  • Acceptance

• The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past. And the only per-son better you should be, this is who you are now.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Person
  • Ourselves
  • Compare

• I try to be a person of faith.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Faith
  • Person

• The subject is missing from 'Replica' - it's about malleability of materials, and working with metaphor, and sculpting in time. So that makes a collaboration with another person who pushes sound in a sculptural way appealing, because you're like, 'Let's see what dimensionality is introduced from this other perspective that I might not have.'

  

  Oneohtrix Point Never
  • Because
  • Collaboration
  • Appealing

• I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.

  

  Dave Smalley
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Person
  • Interference
  • Airs

• People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

  

  Sarah Hyland
  • People
  • Today
  • Person

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