Persons Quotes
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I was hoping to do an impressionist painting, but I wanted a good likeness and I wanted to create a feeling of the lady as a person, as a human being rather than as a figurehead for the monarchy and a pomp-and-circumstance sort of formal portrait. I wanted more of a relaxed portrait.
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The greatest response to a negative person is to be a positive person
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I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
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Every person you encounter, whom you interact with, is there to teach you something. Sometimes it may be years before you realize what each had to show you.
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A letter has distinct advantages. You can say all you want to say before the other person has a chance to put in a word.
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If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
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Really, darling, it's a no-brainer. You know, I understand not everybody is for gay marriage. But if you're not for gay marriage, don't marry a gay person. That's what I say
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True compassion is about not bruising the other person’s self-respect.
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My view is that knowing languages is part of the process of becoming a cultured person.
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I love playing people who don't have a sense of humor for instance, there's nothing funnier to me than a person with no sense of humor.
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When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.
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I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
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I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I would like to play in a love story. As long as it doesn't get too sweet. That's not me.
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What binds us together is love, and only love. For love is a Person. Love is God.
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There are persons who rise through grief and there are persons who fall because of grief.
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.
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I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.
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I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.
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Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.
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A person is not really gone until everyone who knew them is gone.
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I think the female first-person is still dismissed, demonized, especially if the book does not end on an empowering note, especially if the main character is perceived as unlikeable, or too privileged.
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When I moved to New York, I feel like a lot of things widened within my perspective and as I spend some time here - as everyone does when they're that age or a young person - [you] figure out your own ideals or figure out the way you fit into society a little bit more than you did before.
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I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.
