Quotes about person

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Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Sweet Far Thing

Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

Source: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

Source: War and Peace

Source: Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Golden Fool

Source: 1960s, The Medium is the Message (1967), p. 26
Source: The Medium is the Massage

Source: Death in the Stocks

Source: Uprooted

Source: Night Film

Source: Oceans of Fire

Source: Duchess By Night

Source: The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. Vol. 1, 1899-1936: The Making of a Detective Novelist

Source: The Autobiography of My Mother

Source: A Lady Never Surrenders

Source: The Book Thief

Source: The Blood of Olympus

1964 Memorial Edition, p. 266 http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations/Profiles-in-Courage-quotations.aspx <br class="br">Variant: A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. <br class="br">Source: Pre-1960, Profiles in Courage (1956) <br class="br">Context: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul. <br class="br">Context: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men — such as the subjects of this book — have lived. The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience — the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men — each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient — they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Source: Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Source: Sugar Daddy

Source: The Stone Woman

Source: How to Kill a Rock Star

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Source: The Condemned

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America's Future

Savannah Lynn Curtis, Chapter 4, p. 71
Variant: ... when you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.
Source: 2000s, Dear John (2006)

Source: Steve Jobs

Travis Parker, Chapter 16, p. 203
Variant: Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)

Source: The Great Gatsby

Source: Message in a Bottle

Source: Batman: Hush, Vol. 1

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: Diaries of Franz Kafka

Source: The Notebook

Source: Flipped

Source: Survivor

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: The Notebook

Source: The Swan Thieves

Source: This Side of Paradise

Source: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds

"The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'", The Miami Herald, November 2, 1997.
Columns and articles

Source: Blood and Chocolate

Variant: A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.
Source: The Kite Runner

Source: Go Set a Watchman

Mariam, p. 370
A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007)
Context: She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.

Illusions : The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah (1977)
Variant: All the people, all the events in your life are put there for a reason. What you choose to do with them is up to you

Source: American Assassin

Source: Cloaked

Variant: There’s a real bonding in someone beating the crap out of you. - Rolly
Source: Just Listen

Source: Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Variant: The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.
Source: My Sister's Keeper

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Letters to a Young Conservative

Source: Your Best Life Now: 7 Steps to Living at Your Full Potential

Source: Tender Is the Night

Source: Living Out Loud

Source: The Mark of Athena

Source: Summer of My German Soldier

Source: The Marriage of Opposites

Rose
Titanic (1997)
Context: A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets. But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson, and that he saved me in every way that a person can be saved. I don't even have a picture of him. He exists now only in my memory.

Source: Book of a Thousand Days

Source: Born of the Night

"On Eating and Drinking".
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

Source: The Serpent's Shadow

Source: Clockwork Prince

Source: The Hero and the Crown

Source: The Magicians

Political scientist Thomas E. Cronin, "Leadership and Democracy", in 'Liberal Education', 1987
Misattributed

Source: Watermelon

Source: Watchmen

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 28.

Source: The Price of Salt

Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

Source: Faefever

Source: All Families are Psychotic

Les Misérables