Persons Quotes
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Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.
Marlo Thomas
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Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
Francis Hutcheson
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I'm more a dog person than a cat person.
Quentin S. Crisp
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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
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I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.
Stevie Smith
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
Wyndham Lewis
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If we had not been dealing with the devil in person, we could have saved Algeria.
Georges Bidault
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I've learned.... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you... More
Andy Rooney
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A Nation... is a group of persons united by a common error about their ancestry, and a common dislike of their neighbors
Karl Deutsch
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When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?
Carson McCullers
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I'm a person who has life and wants to live, and always have.
Whitney Houston
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We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.
Julia Roberts
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A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.
Dorrel Norman Elvert Herzog
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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
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Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality - about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all.
Chinmayananda Saraswati
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Dreams are more original than images we see in the media, and are surprisingly unaffected by media. For example, the average person watches several hours of television per day, yet dreams are rarely about shows we have watched or news of the day.
Charles McPhee
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Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.
Umar
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I always play these rodent type characters - skittish and hyper like a chipmunk. It's a complete act though. I'm a very normal person.
Ethan Embry
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Every single person has leadership ability. Some step up and take them. Some don't. My answer was to step up and lead.
Wilma Mankiller
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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
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Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
Keith Johnstone
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Yes, it gets better, but I also understand that saying to a 15-year-old that, 'Oh, don't worry, just wait a year', is like saying 'Wait a lifetime', but every single person has the right to go to school and not be afraid.
Rick Mercer
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When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?
Sandra Oh