Persons Quotes
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So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.
William T. Vollmann -
None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!
Ratan Tata
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Approach each new day as a new opportunity to be the person you aspire to be.
Bill Courtney -
Every story, each poem that a person shares, each voice that speaks against menstrual taboo, inspires me.
Additi Gupta -
You have to live to the responsibility of the person who has won, which is even greater than the responsibility of a person who has lost.
Peter Brook -
Only love matters in the bits and pieces of a person's life.
William Trevor -
I consider myself an aware person who is sensitive to injustice.
Dacia Maraini
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I think the worst part is that when you know you dream another person's dream, you can never truly feel at peace. Never truly trust yourself. If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?
Cameron Dokey -
I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.
Torquil Campbell Broken Social Scene -
If mob law is going to rule, better dismiss, judge, sheriff, etc., and let's all take chances alike. I expect to be lynched in going to Lincoln New Mexico. Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy the Kid -
When a person becomes satisfied, he doesn't run after things, doesn't worry about it, and doesn't make efforts.
Virender Sehwag -
We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
Aharon Appelfeld -
Sometimes a relationship is what falls cause it's not fair that, that person has to fit inside your life or you have to fit inside that person's life.
Nelly -
Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause.
George Washington -
If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.
Spider Robinson -
Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.
Aristotle -
We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.
Anne Katherine
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A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.
Beverley Baxter -
I know of no person or group that is taking nearly adequate advantage of the graphical potentialities of the computer.
John Tukey -
I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
Tom Stoppard -
A smart person is not one that knows the answers, but one who knows where to find them.
William Petersen