Persons Quotes

• Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

  

  Sergei Eisenstein
  • Bird
  • Landscape
  • Accounts

• Who was the first person to walk into a harbor and say, "Whatever that horrible smell is I want to eat it"

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Firsts
  • Horrible
  • Harbors

• I began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person, so I've been going by Yasiin since '99. At first it was just for friends and family, but now I'm declaring it openly.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Firsts
  • Products
  • Treated

• The person who said money is the root of all evil just flat out didn't have any.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Money
  • Evil
  • Roots

• I believe that if you can discover something of the truth of a person, then you will start to understand, and to understand is to move towards, if not like, then at least an empathy of some kind.

  

  Rupert Friend
  • Believe
  • Kind
  • Moving

• Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.

  

  Ethel Waters
  • House
  • Doors
  • Omen

• The 'phenomenal concept' issue is rather different, I think. Here the question is whether there are concepts of experiences that are made available to subjects solely in virtue of their having had those experiences themselves. Is there a way of thinking about seeing something red, say, that you get from having had those experiences, and so isn't available to a blind person?

  

  David Papineau
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Available

• I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Film

• Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Stills

• I'm not the type of person that just needs to feel concrete and like nothing's going to change. I revel in the change.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Feels
  • Needs
  • Type

• I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Persons
  • Marginalized

• The horror of knowing someone and living with them and even thinking you're lucky and then wham and now you know that every person is really two people and how can you ever know what the other half is up to.

  

  Michelle Tea
  • Knowing
  • Someone
  • Half

• For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Needs
  • Persons

• If most of your courtship attempts have succeeded, you must be a very attractive and charming person who has been aiming too low.

  

  Geoffrey Miller
  • Attractive
  • Charming
  • Courtship

• A dream is a telegram from the hidden world...Only a fool or an illiterate person ignores it.

  

  Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • World
  • Dream
  • Fool

• the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Hardest
  • Demon
  • Casts

• It is one step, and a giant one, to see clearly and participate in the love that flows between the persons of the Trinity, but even here, God is seen as the object of his own love. It is yet another step to realize that God is beyond all subject and object and is Himself love without subject or object. This is the step beyond our highest experiences of love and union, a step in which self is not around to divide, separate, objectify or claim anything for itself. Self does not know God; it cannot love him, and from the beginning has never done so.

  

  Bernadette Roberts
  • God
  • Love
  • Experiences

• The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

  

  William Osler
  • Health
  • Disease
  • Medicine

• When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

  

  Christopher West
  • Light
  • Process
  • Sin

• I think the better you know yourself as a person, the better an actor you can be.

  

  Michael Angarano
  • Knows
  • Persons
  • Actors

• Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Rational
  • Fellings
  • Edie

• I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Crazy
  • Fighting
  • Scene

• A person with a flexible schedule and average resources will be happier than a rich person who has everything except a flexible schedule. Step one in your search for happiness is to continually work toward having control of your schedule.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Rich
  • Resources
  • Average

• When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  

  Confucius
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Contrary

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