Person Quotes
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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 -
If you change the right mind, then that person can perhaps change the world.
Paul Haggis
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Such is the power of death - to strip away breath and transform a person into an airy abstraction.
Anita Rau Badami -
Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr -
It feels like every person is using their whole brain and heart to figure out these nearly impossible dilemmas about how we do our work, with our principles, in the current conditions. And it feels like the thing we know to be true about working collectively - that we have better ideas together than we do individually.
Dean Spade -
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.
Alexandre Dumas -
The human body is not the person. Identity is the way the brain operates; it's memories, it's sensory input and output. The mind is the person.
Genesis P-Orridge -
You have a responsibility to act for others when you're the only person in a position to do so. It's how you handle it that separates the great from the mediocre.
Wilbert Rideau
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But the guilty person is only one of the targets of punishment. For punishment is directed above all at others, at all the potentially guilty.
Michel Foucault -
I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!
Whitney Port -
I've always been quite an insecure person.
Ronan Keating Boyzone -
I've already done enough to have earned 'good driver,' so if I can be known as a great person and a good driver, that's better than only being a great driver.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -
How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.
Wilhelm von Humboldt -
The only person you resent is yourself.
John Hewson
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Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.
Daniel Beaty -
We can program ourselves to be the person we want to be, whatever the subject matter is, live in it by a mental physical program - a system of learning and doing. Studying all the greats in that field and becoming greater. I believe we are powerful, but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want.
Michael Jackson -
People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.
Shari Sebbens -
The solution when you don't like someone's speech is not to silence that person, or that corporation. It's more and louder speech of your own.
Michael Kinsley -
It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.
Norman MacCaig -
Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi
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I keep saying this: If you're not a feminist, you're a bad person.
Kalki Koechlin -
“Uh-oh," thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. "This person wants to kill me."
Cressida Cowell -
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.
Marcel Proust -
If we had one person who could perfectly read minds we could solve a lot of problems in the world in a very short period of time.
Scott Derrickson