“My personal motto is: WWWWD?: What Would Wonder Woman Do?”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Beauty Queens
Quotes about person page 26
Lance Armstrong (1971) professional cyclist from the USA
As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2002/sportsman/flashbacks/lance/king_of_the_hill
“No one ever likes the right person.”
Bret Easton Ellis The Rules of Attraction
Source: The Rules of Attraction
“People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.”
Miep Gies (1909–2010) Dutch citizen who hid Anne Frank
“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
Susan Sontag Regarding the Pain of Others
Source: Regarding the Pain of Others
Anaïs Nin book The Diary of Anaïs Nin
The Diary of Anaïs Nin , Volume One 1931-1934
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“you're not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”
Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper
Source: My Sister's Keeper
Erich Fromm (1900–1980) German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
Source: Man for Himself (1947), Ch. 4 "Problems of Humanistic Ethics"
“You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.”
Stephen King book Doctor Sleep
Source: Doctor Sleep
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: The Cornel West Reader
“When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?”
Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
“There's something to be said about a slightly plump person—you have just enough of too much.”
Jamaica Kincaid (1949) Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer
“A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.”
Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804) Founding Father of the United States
Steven Brust book Iorich
Source: Iorich (2010), p. 172 <!-- (goodreads) http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/6874180 --> <br class="br">Context: A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless.
“The kind of person that thanks another person never survives. Have you learned nothing?”
Karen Marie Moning (1964) author
Source: Dreamfever
Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Experiencing the Heart of Jesus: Knowing His Heart, Feeling His Love
“I'm not a very happy person," I told him."But sometimes I can trick myself into thinking I am.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd
Ernestine Gilbreth Carey book Belles on Their Toes
Source: Belles on Their Toes
“No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.”
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
This is attributed to Pirsig by Richard Dawkins in the Preface to The God Delusion (2006), p. 28, but cannot be found prior to that. It is obviously a paraphrase of the following from Pirsig's Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals (1991): „An insane delusion can't be held by a group at all. A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion." ( books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=51i6WkGn6qYC&q=%22An+insane+delusion%22; books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=WZtRAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA426) <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
“A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.”
Marcus Aurelius book Meditations
Source: Meditations
“Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
“If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1880s, Speech on the Anniversary of Emancipation (1886)
Context: I admit the charge, but deny that nature, race, or color has anything to do with the fact. Any other race, with the same antecedents and the same conditions, would show a similar thieving propensity. The American people have this lesson to learn, that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property would be safe... While I hold now, as I held years ago, that the South is the natural home of the colored race, and that there must the destiny of that race be mainly worked out, I still believe that means can be and ought to be adopted, to assist in the emigration of such of their number as may wish to change their residence to parts of the country, where their civil and political rights are better protected than at present they can be at the South... The Republican party is not perfect; it is cautious even to the point of timidity; but it is the best friend we have.
John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
Maya Angelou book Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Source: Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
“Swans sing before they die— 't were no bad thing
Should certain persons die before they sing.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
“Show me a person who doesn't have a past and I'll show you a boring bastard”
Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer
Source: Last Chance Saloon
“For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him”
Philip K. Dick book VALIS
VALIS (1981)
Context: For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him … another sentence exists, another series of words, which will heal the person. If you're lucky you will get the second; but you can be certain of getting the first: that is the way it works. On their own, without training, individuals know how to deal out the lethal sentence, but training is required to deal out the second.
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Smooth Talking Stranger
“One person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.”
Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes
Source: Nineteen Minutes
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”
Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead
Variant: A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
Source: The Fountainhead
“Luck is probability taken personally.”
Penn Jillette (1955) American magician
Often repeated by Penn Jillette, who attributes this quote to Chip Denman.[citation needed]
Misattributed
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
