Quotes about person
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“Chrestomanci smiled and swept out of the room like a very long procession of one person.”

Source: Charmed Life

“Yes, I can talk and think at the same time. Most people can, though I suppose you wouldn't know that from personal experience.
Elena (Bitten)”

Kelley Armstrong (1968) Canadian writer

People, Thinking, Time, Personality

“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.”

Carol Ryrie Brink book Magical Melons

Source: Caddie Woodlawn's Family

Hope, Personality

“But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Moveable Feast

Source: A Moveable Feast

Spring, Personality

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?”

Chuck Palahniuk Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

Time, Personality

“As she turned to concentrate on the portal, Eve tugged on Claire's shirt. "What?"
"Ask him where he got the boots."
"You ask." Personally, Claire wanted the vampire bunny slippers.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

Personality

“Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.”

Mark Batterson (1969) American pastor and writer

Source: Draw the Circle: The 40 Day Prayer Challenge

Game, Idea, Personality

“Any time some well-meaning person forces you to demonstrate you have no talent and rubs your nose in the fact you're a failure at the only dream you ever had, take another drink.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Diary

Source: Diary

Dreams, Failure, Drink, Time

“How can I make him understand that he did not create me?
He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.”

Daniel Keyes book Flowers for Algernon

Source: Flowers for Algernon

Feeling, Understanding, Personality

“Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love.”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Deep, Faith, Heart Touching, Valentine's Day

“The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”

Leo Buscaglia (1924–1998) Motivational speaker, writer

Fear, Failure, Personality

“I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing…. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

People, Success, Personality

“Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)”

Sue Grafton (1940–2017) American writer

Source: B is for Burglar

Men, People, Personality

“A Warrior of Light values a child's eyes because they are able to look at the world without bitterness. When he wants to find out if the person beside him is worthy of his trust, he tries to see him as a child would”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

World, Light, Personality

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

Jodi Picoult book Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

People, Past, Personality

“Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to be a shallow person.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Life, Personality

“For me, the person I was becoming when we left was erased, and another one was created.”

Esmeralda Santiago (1948) Puerto Rican writer and actor

Source: When I Was Puerto Rican

Personality

“Well, dear, it's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get into a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.”

Eva Ibbotson book The Secret of Platform 13

Variant: It's true that adventures are good for people even when they are very young. Adventures can get in a person's blood even if he doesn't remember having them.
Source: The Secret of Platform 13

People, Personality

“Have you fallen in love with wrong person yet?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

Love, Personality

“They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!"
Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished.
Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

Time, Personality

“By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

Beauty, Personality

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.”

John Stuart Mill book On Liberty

Source: On Liberty

Evil, Personality

“One of the great joys of falling in love is the feeling that the most extraordinary person in the entire world has chosen you.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Love, World, Feeling, Joy

“I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Time, Personality

“It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt.1, ch.11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Thinking, Hurt, Personality

“That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Love, Feeling, Soul, Time

“For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly.
From something like that or it doesn't begin at all.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Love, Personality

“She thought of how much people changed you. It was the opposite of what you always heard, that no one could change a person. It wasn't true. It was only through other people that one ever did change.”

Susan Minot (1956) American author and screenwriter

Source: Evening

People, Change, Personality

“Any humane and reasonable person must conclude that if the ends, however desireable, are uncertain and the means are horrible and certain, these means must not be employed.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

Personality

“A writer is a world trapped in a person.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

World, Personality

“You will act like the sort of person you conceive yourself to be.”

Maxwell Maltz (1889–1975) Plastic surgeon, self-help author

Source: Psycho-Cybernetics, A New Way to Get More Living Out of Life

Personality

“If it's easy to be friendly she will be. If the wind blows the other way her friendship will be gone. And I'm thinking the wind is blowing the other way. She has found some other way to be an important person in her own right by hating others.”

Charlaine Harris book All Together Dead

Source: All Together Dead

Hate, Friendship, Way, Thinking

“To become a happy person have a clean soul, eyes that see romance in the commonplace, a child’s heart, and spiritual simplicity.”

Norman Vincent Peale book The Power of Positive Thinking

Source: The Power of Positive Thinking

Soul, Heart, Personality, Happiness

“There you go… let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”

Shannon Hale Princess Academy

Source: Princess Academy

Soul, Tear, Personality

“You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.”

Cassandra Clare The Bane Chronicles

Source: The Bane Chronicles

Tear, Laughter, Personality

“There were some things that needed to be said even if the person you were saying them to didn't understand; words that must be released from their trapped place where their flapping to get out could cause internal damage.”

Patti Callahan Henry American writer

Source: Between The Tides

Understanding, Personality

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an ordination of character which determines the relatedness of the person to the whole world as a whole, not toward one object of love”

Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst

Love, World, Personality

“I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.”

Randa Abdel-Fattah (1979) contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults

Source: Does My Head Look Big In This?

Life, Guy, Personality

“Dear Depression, please keep your distance. Don’t be nasty. Find some other person with more reason than me to look in the mirror and say: “What a pointless existence.” Whether you like it or not, I know how to defeat you. You’re wasting your time.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Time, Personality

“People with lost personalities will suffer a great deal more than those with lost virginities.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Saving Francesca

People, Suffering, Personality

“The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.”

Jonathan Franzen book Freedom

Source: Freedom

Dreams, Freedom, Rage, Personality

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Sugar Daddy

Personality

“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

Smile, Thinking, Personality

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

George Sheehan Irish footballer

Courageous, Success, Courage, Success

“No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.”

Naomi Wolf (1962) American writer

Beauty, Problem, Appearance, Personality

“Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

World, Dreams, Personality

“Conditions of thought, memory, and desire, persuaded by impulse and irrationality, are influenced as well by personal aesthetics and private meanings.”

Kay Redfield Jamison (1946) American bipolar disorder researcher

Source: Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

Memory, Personality

“I want to tell them, "Chip, Kim, there is no way to suicide-proof a person.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Way, Suicide, Personality

“He was a person who couldn't fake a smile but smiled often.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Smile, Personality

“Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.”

Khushwant Singh (1915–2014) Indian novelist and journalist

World, Change, Personality

“A person susceptible to "wanderlust" is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

Pico Iyer (1957) British writer

Personality

“Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.”

Anna Gavalda (1970) French writer

Source: Someone I Loved

Personality, Happiness

“Try to find pleasure in the speed that you're not used to. Changing the way you do routine things allows a new person to grow inside of you. But when all is said and done, you're the one who must decide how you handle it.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Pleasure, Way, Change, Personality

“Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.”

Jasper Fforde book Something Rotten

Source: Something Rotten

Death, Personality

“To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.”

Erich Fromm book The Art of Loving

Source: The Art of Loving

Love, Fear, Personality

“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Life, Books, Personality

“If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Love, Way, Personality

“I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person.”

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Margarita"

Source: The Life of Monsieur de Moliere

Education, Personality

“Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Personality

“It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained;… the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no doubt, be recognized as a Person; but he or she has not attained the truth of this recognition as an independent self-consciousness.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher

Source: Phenomenology of Spirit

Life, Truth, Freedom, Personality

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

Susan Sontag book On Photography

Variant: to take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
Source: On Photography

Time, Personality