Quotes about person
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“The quickest way to rectify that mistake (choosing the wrong person) is by learning from that, moving on, and choosing much more wisely in the future.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Way, Learning, Future, Personality

“Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Personality

“There's nothing more aggravating in the world than the midnight sniffling of the person you've decided to hate.”

Shannon Hale book Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Hate, World, Personality

“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

Suffering, Personality, Anger

“She did not believe he could have really gone, because for her, to leave the person you loved was impossible.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Personality

“a person can get used to anything if given enough time”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Time, Personality

“A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.”

Stephen King book Duma Key

Source: Duma Key

Memory, Personality

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Education, Personality, Country

“It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.”

Kim Edwards book The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Personality

“If you don’t go after Luke,” Clary said, enunciating very clearly, “I, personally, will kill you.”
For a moment Jocelyn looked astonished. Then she smiled. “Well,” she said, “if you put it like that.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

Smile, Personality

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

Emmet Fox (1886–1951) American New Thought writer

Love, World, Personality

“We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real… and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists. (295)”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

Truth, Personality

“Recipes are just descriptions of one person’s take on one moment in time. They’re not rules.”

Mario Batali (1960) American chef, writer, restaurateur and media personality

Time, Personality

“It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.”

Doris Lessing book The Grass Is Singing

The Grass Is Singing, ch. 2 (1950)

Truth, Personality

“Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

People, Books, Reading, Personality

“That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Love, Drawing, Personality

“It's harder to write in the third person but the advantage is you move around better.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Personality

“If there's a sexier sound on this planet than the person you're in love with cooing over the crepes you made for him, I don't know what it is.”

Julie Powell (1973) American blogger

Source: Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living

Love, Personality

“It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Tempt Me at Twilight

Love, Truth, Light, Personality

“When everything else falls down around us, just knowing that there's another person who will miss us when we're gone is enough to see us through our darkest moments.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Personality

“A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence

Feeling, Confidence, Personality, Motivational

“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

Personality

“No one knows you like a person with whom you've shared a childhood. No one will ever understand you in quite the same way.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Way, Understanding, Childhood, Personality

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”

John Stuart Mill book Considerations on Representative Government

In a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866). Hansard, vol 183, col 1592. Pakington was referring to Footnote 3 to Chapter 7 of Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government".
Misquoted as "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." in "Life of John Stuart Mill" (1889) by W. L. Courtney, p. 147.
This seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.

Stupidity, Question, Thinking, Personality

“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

Fear, Personality

“I'm an average person. Is just that I like reading.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

IQ84 (2009-2010)
Variant: I'm a very ordinary human being; I just happen to like reading books.
Source: 1Q84 BOOK 1

Reading, Personality

“The world's most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us.”

Chetan Bhagat (1974) Indian author, born 1974

World, Personality

“But if something did happen, it happened. Whether it's right or wrong. I accept everything that happens, and that's how I became the person I am now.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Personality

“I think of how the person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.”

Douglas Coupland book Shampoo Planet

Source: Shampoo Planet

Thinking, Personality

“There are only four points of warmth and brightness, in the whole world, that burn fiercely enough for me to feel something like the person I was. Your mother, your father, Lucie, and you. You love, and tremble, and burn.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Nothing but Shadows

Love, World, Feeling, Personality

“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (1977) Nigerian writer

Personality

“Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

God, World, Personality

“Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.”

Tom Perrotta The Abstinence Teacher

Source: The Abstinence Teacher

Personality

“I am not loved. I am not a beautiful soul. I am not a good-natured, giving person. I am not anybody's savior.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Love, Beauty, Soul, Nature

“If you are a woman, if you are a person of colour, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world.”

Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian

From Her Tours and CDs, The Notorious C.H.O. Tour
Context: “And I have a lot of self-esteem, which is amazing, because I’m probably somebody who wouldn’t necessarily have a lot of self esteem as I am considered a minority and if you are a woman, if you are a person of color, if you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, if you are a person of size, if you are person of intelligence, if you are a person of integrity, then you are considered a minority in this world. And it's going to be really hard to find messages of self-love and support anywhere. Especially women's and gay men's culture. It's all about how you have to look a certain way, or else you're worthless. You know, when you look in the mirror and think, ‘Ugh, I'm so ugly, I'm so fat, I'm so old.’ Don't you know that's not your authentic self? But that is billions upon billions of dollars of advertising. Magazines, movies, billboards, all geared to make you feel shitty about yourself, so that you will take your hard earned money and spend it at the mall on some turn-around crème that doesn't turn around shit. If you don't have self-esteem, you will hesitate before you do anything in your life. You will hesitate to go for the job you want to go for. You will hesitate to ask for a raise. You will hesitate to call yourself an American. You will hesitate to report a rape. You will hesitate to defend yourself when you are discriminated against because of your race, your sexuality, your size, your gender. You will hesitate to vote; you will hesitate to dream. For us to have self-esteem is truly an act of revolution, and our revolution is long overdue.

World, Intelligence, Personality

“She cared about him too much, and he was a dangerous person to love. He wouldn't love her back.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Love, Personality

“No person ever died that had a family.”

Ray Bradbury book Dandelion Wine

Source: Dandelion Wine

Family, Personality

“That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Life, Books, Way, Thinking

“I've never been in love. I will die without knowing what it feels like to need to see one person's face when you go to sleep at night, to crave seeing it when you wake up. I wish I knew.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Love, Feeling, Sleep, Personality

“… the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Time, Personality

“It’s not technically gossip if you start your sentence with “I’m really concerned about __________________,” (fill in the name of the person you’re not gossiping about).”

Brian P. Cleary (1959) American writer

Source: You Oughta Know By Now

Personality

“The therapists told you that you needed to find happiness within yourself before you got it from another person.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Personality, Happiness

“It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Personality

“I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,
is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic
person has a desperate confidence that they won't.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Confidence, Idea, Thinking, Personality

“I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I couldn't help but take it personally.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Hate, Help, Personality

“Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

Business, Effort, Personality

“If there was one thing worse than being cheated, it was being cheated by someone who referred to themselves in the third person.”

Chris Wooding (1977) British children's writer

Source: The Iron Jackal

Cheating, Personality

“Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Faith, Personality

“There was once a big atomic bomb
That wanted to be a bullet.
His friends all asked why, when he was such a big atomic bomb, he would want to be a tiny bullet.
"I miss", he sighed, "the personal touch.”

Tuli Kupferberg (1923–2010) American anarchist, poet, publisher and musician.

Personality

“What you tend to find in the personal lives of brilliant men is devastation akin to a nuclear bomb going off.”

Marisha Pessl (1977) American writer

Source: Night Film

Men, Personality

“The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.”

Robert Ludlum book The Bourne Supremacy

Source: The Bourne Supremacy

Hope, Personality, Falseness

“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”

Lynne Truss (1955) British writer

Source: Talk to the Hand: The Utter Bloody Rudeness of the World Today, or Six Good Reasons to Stay Home and Bolt the Door

Imagination, Personality

“One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.”

Thomas Harris (1940) American author and screenwriter

Personality

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

Pain, Fear, Feeling, Personality

“We will not just say, "I love him very much," but instead, "I will do something so that he will suffer less." The mind of compassion is truly present when it is effective in removing another person's suffering.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Love, Suffering, Personality

“A deranged person is supposed to have the strength of ten men.
I have the strength of one small boy… with polio.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Men, Boy, Personality

“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

Reading, Personality

“In the end, a person is only known by the impact he or she has on others.”

Jim Stovall (1958) American writer

Source: The Ultimate Gift

Personality

“Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

People, Hell, Personality

“My point is: in this whole wide world the only person you can depend on is you.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

World, Dependency, Personality

“It is now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Variant: God has granted you a special talent. It's now your duty to hone that talent, because a person who wastes his God-given talents is a donkey.
Source: The Kite Runner

God, Personality

“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Pain, Way, Feeling, Personality

“I'd tried to straighten him out, but there's only so much you can do for a person who thinks Auschwitz is a brand of beer.”

David Sedaris (1956) American author

Beer, Thinking, Personality

“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Personality

“Six a. m.!" Xander cried. "I know that's a number on my clock, but I've never actually been awake to personally witness it!”

Alice Henderson American writer

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1

Personality

“It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.”

Cormac McCarthy The Sunset Limited

Source: The Sunset Limited

World, Education, Personality

“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

World, Way, Personality

“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”

Barbara De Angelis (1951) American psychologist

From Are You the One for Me? (1992)

Love, Time, Personality

“I ascribe to Mark Twain's theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.”

Bill Hicks (1961–1994) American comedian

Housing, Personality

“If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.”

David Letterman (1947) American comedian and actor

Coffee, Personality

“Well, because sometimes you love someone but they might not be the right
person for you. That takes some time to figure out”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Baby Proof

Love, Time, Personality

“I am not a person to say the words out loud / I think them strongly, or let them hunger from the page.”

Keri Hulme (1947) New Zealand writer

Hunger, Thinking, Personality

“The four Keltar Druids brought their wives and children. They breed like it's their personal mission to populate their country in case somebody attacks again, as if anybody wants the bloody place.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Children, Personality, Country

“Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.”

Susanna Clarke book Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Source: Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Angels, Personality

“What one person does, several people usually consider.”

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (1984) Novelist

People, Personality

“There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

World, Personality

“In the Night World there's this idea called the soulmate principle. It says that every person has one soulmate out there, just one. And that person is perfect for you and is your destiny.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

World, Idea, Personality, Perfection

“The only person who suffers, when you squirrel alway all that hate, is you.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Hate, Suffering, Personality

“Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Life, Feeling, Personality

“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”

Terry Goodkind book Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

Courageous, Courage, Personality

“No matter how quiet and conformist a person’s life seems, there’s always a time in the past when they reached an impasse. A time when they went a little crazy. I guess people need that sort of stage in their lives.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Life, People, Time, Past

“However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.”

Ian McEwan book Atonement

Source: Atonement

Feeling, Personality

“For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.”

Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Love, Life, Way, Time

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

George Eliot book Middlemarch

Source: Middlemarch

Life, Personality

“The only
thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself.
My work done my way.
A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the
only way I function. That’s all I am.”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

Source: The Fountainhead

Way, Motivation, Personality, Selfishness

“Ever wonder why the gods created man, Grom? I personally think that we're the original reality show. They were so effing bored that they created us just so that they could feel better about themselves”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Styxx

God, Feeling, Thinking, Reality

“We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs…. We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

War, Hope, Behavior, Personality

“You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.”

Oswald Chambers book My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

God, Personality

“Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.”

Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage

Source: Murder at the Vicarage

Reading, Personality

“He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Personality, Happiness

“I loved the idea of a girl going into a dark alley, and a monster comes, and then she just aces him. It’s like, you want to see the tiny person suddenly take control. God, my whole career is basically about that!”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Love, God, Girl, Idea

“Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Personality

“A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.”

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet

Books, Appearance, Help, Hurt

“Every action we take has consequences, Vin," Kelsier said. "I've found that in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

Life, Success, Personality

“Because that's what you do, you stand up for your best friend. And you eat lunch with him and talk with him and share secrets and laugh a lot and go places and do stuff, and when you wake up in the morning, he's the first person you think of.”

Jerry Spinelli book Loser

Source: Loser

Secret, Thinking, Personality

“He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.”

Sinclair Lewis book It Can't Happen Here

Source: It Can't Happen Here

Love, People, Fear, Personality

“I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present.”

Doris Lessing book The Golden Notebook

Source: The Golden Notebook

Future, Personality

“I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.”

Anthony Bourdain book Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

Medium Raw (2010)
Source: Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

People, Business, Personality

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”

Fannie Flagg (1944) American actress, comedian and author

Food, Personality

“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

Citizenship Papers (2003), The Total Economy
Context: A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance. Unlike a person, a corporation does not age. It does not arrive, as most persons finally do, at a realization of the shortness and smallness of human lives; it does not come to see the future as the lifetime of the children and grandchildren of anybody in particular.

Money, Personality

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