Top 100 Person To Quotes
#1. The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.
Noam Chomsky
#2. A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. Maxwell
#4. I need to figure out how to keep this forever. Her, me the open desert. I don't fucking need anything else. I may be young but I know enough that sometimes you don't need the world. You just need that one person to rule the world with.
Karina Halle
#5. I'm not the type of person to go into depression after defeat.
Kevin Keegan
#6. No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that person to be absolutely incompetent, assuming a posture of disdain from my own position of false superiority.
Paulo Freire
#7. You don't have to be a good person to feel like a good person, though. There's a loophole I found where I don't do good, helpful things, but I keep myself in a perpetual state of thinking I might.
Allie Brosh
#8. Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
Charlie Haden
#9. It only takes one clear person to have a good relationship.
Byron Katie
#10. Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his words more easily than his countenance.
Bill Vaughan
#11. My point is, it takes a special person to cry over a book. It shows compassion as well as imagination...Don't ever lose that
Alex Gino
#12. Sometimes it takes another person to see us for who we really are.
Priscilla West
#13. I was bullied every second of every day in elementary and middle school.
Obviously, people are going to bring you down because of your drive.
But, ultimately, it makes you a stronger person to turn your cheek and
go the other way.
Selena Gomez
#14. The friendship of a dog is precious. It becomes even more so when one is so far removed from home ... I have a Scottie. In him I find consolation and diversion ... he is the "one person" to whom I can talk without the conversation coming back to war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#15. I really am not going to get involved in a discussion about the legal position of the Iraq war. I am not the person to do that because I am not sufficiently impartial as a lawyer about this, because it's a matter that is of interest to the person that I am closest to in the world.
Cherie Blair
#16. If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.
Lou Ferrigno
#17. You'll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything else. You will need other people and you will need to be that other person to someone else, a living breathing screaming invitation to believe better things.
Jamie Tworkowski
#18. Becoming a good conversationalist is all about developing good conversational habits. Habits that show who you are in an engaging way and encourage the other person to do the same.
Charlie Houpert
#19. When I'm a teacher, I won't be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don't want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.
Susane Colasanti
#20. How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it.
Albert Einstein
#22. Even if 1000 people test something and come up with the same conclusion, I can be the 1001st person to bring out a different result
Nauman Khan
#23. Although we amplify our cognitive degree of awareness and enhance our appreciation for life experiences by maturing, it also brings us death. Facing a certain death forces a person to examine the worthiness of continuing to live.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#24. I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
Vikram Seth
#25. If one is sick, one is usually the last person to know.
Ahmed Mostafa
#26. Intel is not the right person to be making clothing or even wristbands. We want to provide the fashion industry with the technical solutions.
Brian Krzanich
#27. If people are only kind to me I'm sure I am the last person to quarrel with anyone.' His
Georgette Heyer
#28. Im not the kind of person to just sit back and lose something I worked hard on, so, naturally, Ive taken steps to be further involved in a process when most actors arent.
Amber Heard
#29. A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.
Nikola Tesla
#30. Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.
Frank Warren
#31. Just being the first person to bring the character to life is really fun and exciting.
Robbie Amell
#32. I try to be open with everybody, try to make everybody feel welcome and make them feel like, hey, I'm an easy person to talk to, get along with.
Adrian Peterson
#33. When I honor, I don't keep track of it. I don't save it for later as a leverage point to get the other person to honor me. I do it because the behavior is consistent with the person I want to be.
Tim Ursiny
#34. I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Abby Sunderland
#35. Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.
Rumi
#36. I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.
Lashinda Demus
#37. I want someone who can handle me. And I'm not the easiest person to handle.
Robin Givens
#38. You've got one life, one world, and one person to get a hold of.
Jolene Stockman
#39. The last person to stand still and repeat himself was Walt Disney. He refused to repeat himself. So to think that he'd be making the same kind of film in the year 2001 that he made in 1941 is absurd.
Leonard Maltin
#40. Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.
Greg Iles
#41. Growing up, I can remember singing along with my ma all of the time. I wouldn't say she necessarily 'taught' me how to sing, but she was definitely the first person to inspire me to sing and the first to intrigue me vocally. I've always had a natural ear for music, though.
Elliott Yamin
#42. The worst person to be in the celebrity Big Brother house with would be Peter Andre - cos I hate his Missus.
Jodie Marsh
#43. Earlier I had thought a lot about why it was so extremely unusual for a person to be able to live for an ideal. Now I saw that many people, all in fact, are capable of dying for an ideal. Only, it mustn't be a personal, freely chosen ideal, but one held in common and taken over from other people.
Hermann Hesse
#44. Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Olivia Fox Cabane
#45. Complex adaptations like "being a little selfish" and "not being willing to
work without reward" are human universals. The strength might vary a bit
from person to person, but everyone's got the same machinery under the
hood, we're just painted different colors.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#46. We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture and impact of doing good.
Biz Stone
#47. And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
Erykah Badu
#48. About actors' lives ... I'm not the person to ask. I don't live an actor's life and I really don't know. I probably read less about actors' lives than you all do. So, I'm in the dark about all of that, sorry.
Tilda Swinton
#49. Love accepts a human being as she is. Love creates the freedom for a human being to be who she is. Love creates the relaxation, which helps a person to relax into her own inner being, into her own authentic self. Love allows us to appreciate the beautiful being we already are.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#50. Personal truth differs from one person to the next, so how can truth itself be a constant? At least we can listen to each other in truth.
Jay Woodman
#51. Don't wait for a perfect person to love. Love a person and make him or her perfect with your power of love.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship ... It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.
Joan D. Chittister
#53. It was you that led me to the musical that's everything to me. You held my hands so that I can enter the world that I could only watch. When I fell, you helped me stand up. When the path was closed, you opened it up. You're that kind of person to me.
Cheon Eunbi
#54. I think I may have been the only person to be rewarded charitably and get a tax deduction for swearing on film!
Hugh Jackman
#55. Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
Catherynne M Valente
#56. When someone is not there all the time it gives us space to think about them. Your job in influence and persuasion is to get the other person to think about you or your product without you forcing yourself upon them or without you making them think about you.
Robert Greene
#57. Love is that as well, I was forgetting: it is taking a huge gamble, staking your all on a single improbable throw, jumping off a cliff and trusting an unknown person to catch you before you hit the ground.
A.P.
#58. I pretended like all the oranges rolling everywhere were her happy memories and they were looking for a new person to stick to so they didn't get wasted.
Stephen Kelman
#59. The pretentiousness of literature really annoys me; the way a writer is held as this sort of magical person to be revered on the stage. Everything I do on tour is to try and destroy that pretense.
Chuck Palahniuk
#60. Our studies have shown that all cases of typhoid of this type have arisen by contact, that is, carried directly from one person to another. There was no trace of a connection to drinking water.
Robert Koch
#61. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
Lauren Bush
#63. I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets ... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.
Ruth Rendell
#64. Problems, obstacles and difficulties are in themselves not a sufficient reason for a person to suffer defeat. It is possible to overcome any obstacle
Sunday Adelaja
#65. Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.
Sam Kean
#66. I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.
Alexander Koch
#67. How can I lead people into the quiet place beside the still waters if I am in perpetual motion? How can I persuade a person to live by faith and not by works if I have to juggle my schedule constantly to make everything fit into place?
Eugene H. Peterson
#68. I don't know if I'm okay. It shouldn't be possible to be this close to another person. To let them crawl inside you.
Katja Millay
#69. I think it takes an introspective person to want to go into the theater and see the dark side of themselves.
Anne Heche
#70. Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, "I have sinned." The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
Oswald Chambers
#71. I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.
Cassandra Clare
#72. Wayne is my favorite person to work with though, because ooohh, oohh, Lil Wayne is just too good, he's just too good.
Drake
#73. One of the best places for a shy person to meet people is in a coffee shop. If you are a reader, bring a book and read it there - that gives a guy something to ask you about. Same goes for sketching, writing, or any hobby you can take with you.
Laurie Helgoe
#74. Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
#75. Forgiveness is the grace by which you enable the other person to get up and get up with dignity, to begin anew.
Desmond Tutu
#76. I love a challenge, and trying to become the first person to break the speed of sound in freefall is a challenge like no other.
Felix Baumgartner
#77. A judgment with an evil design comes about when we compare a person to our pre-conceived beliefs about what is right or wrong and then condemn that person.
John Kuypers
#78. Positive criticism is feedback given with the purpose of helping another person to grow and to develop. Negative criticism is intended to hurt and often to defame and to destroy.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#79. Opposites are attracted at first because we want the other person to complete us. But, no one can complete us because it is our job to make our personality/ego whole.- Author Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#80. Teach a person to think and they'll devise a way to eat for a lifetime
William Robson
#81. I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously ...
Mu Xin
#82. It is a profound belief of mine that if you can induce a person to talk to you for long enough, on any subject whatever! sooner or later they will give themselves away.
Agatha Christie
#83. I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what shape it is. I'm not the first person to ask that question, or to see how absurd it is to think there's a real answer. Maybe life's a circle ...
Questlove
#84. If something is perfect, then there is nothing left,there is no for imagination, no place left for a person to gain additional knowledge or abilities
Tite Kubo
#85. It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
William Shenstone
#86. He who harbors hate is the first person to be injured by it.
He who harbors love is the first person to benefit from it.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#87. It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
Joe Slovo
#88. How would it feel, if you cared for such a person, to watch his complete retreat? To see him day in and out, yet never converse again? To know that he could speak to you if he chose to, but won't?
Karen Marie Moning
#89. The best of America drifts to Paris. The American in Paris is the best American. It is more fun for an intelligent person to live in an intelligent country. France has the only two things toward which we drift as we grow older - intelligence and good manners.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#90. Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison.
Stephen Colbert
#91. He weaved through the group like a dark secret whispered from one person to another.
K.M. Scott
#92. Leadership is a choice to protect the person to the left of us, and protect the person to the right of us, and sometimes that may come at a cost. It may cost us our benefits, it may cost us our comfort, it may sometimes cost us our perks, whatever it is, credit.
Simon Sinek
#93. When I approach a person, I feel a certain way. If I don't feel that way, I'm not going to approach that individual. "I see something in you" - I want the person to know that.
Jamel Shabazz
#94. No thanks," I answered, "I never take rides from strangers, thugs who've tried to kill me or people with poor personal hygiene. Congratulations, by the way, for being the first person to qualify in all three categories.
John Zakour
#95. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
Christine De Pizan
#96. For a person to make a difference in the world, he must be different than the world.
Orrin Woodward
#97. The problem with climate change is that it's quite complicated for the ordinary person to understand.
Lewis Gordon Pugh
#98. Hatred is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die of it.
Tami Hoag
#99. My daughter is a good, caring, compassionate person. To me that's the true meaning of success, even though the marriages didn't work out. My success with my daughter is all that matters.
Charlene Tilton
#100. Mystical experiences (unlike scientific conclusions) cannot be communicated from one person to another. Philosophers and little children are continually amazed that we, unaccountably, find ourselves in a somewhat intelligible world.
Sam Keen
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