Person Quotes
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
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A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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I don't go to church, and I don't know one person who does. Fifteen years ago, I didn't know one person who didn't.
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A person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
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It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
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I guess I just process death differently than some folks. Realizing you're not going to see that person again is always the most difficult part about it. But that feeling settles, and then you are glad you had that person in your life, and then the happiness and the sadness get all swirled up inside you.
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A person is either a missionary or a mission field.
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Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.
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I’m not perfect. I never identified with the way I look; I was just born this way. I don’t feel rejection if I’m not the right person for a job, because that’s not where I find my self-worth. I’m a beautiful person, and that’s not because of my modeling career. There are good shots, and there are bad shots, but it’s just like playing a character. If you think of the top five people that you care about the most in your life, you probably don’t care if they look good in every angle or photo.
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For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.
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It's you, so I feel that a person who will understand you, a person who will find you is waiting out there. So just keep on trying your best.
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It is incumbent upon every person of every description to contribute to his country's welfare.
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who, when he sees what is good, follows it, and when he sees evil, shuns it.
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A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.
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I go to make art as who I am as a person. The fact that I am a woman comes into play maybe in the kinds of things I'm interested in or in the way I structure a canvas.
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I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.
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If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
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When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood.
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When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
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There is probably not one person, however great his virtue, who cannot be led by the complexities of life's circumstances to a familiarity with the vices he condemns the most vehemently – without his completely recognizing this vice which, disguised as certain events, touches him and wounds him: strange words, an inexplicable attitude, on a given night, of the person whom he otherwise has so many reasons to love.
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Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole?
