Top 100 Person Who Quotes
#1. I've only ever known one person who could tolerate this who wasn't a native of Pamarthe." "Captain Solo?" Joph said, without lifting his face from the table. Leia shook her head. "Chewbacca - a Wookiee friend of ours. Han would never touch this.
Claudia Gray
#2. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...
Jonathan Franzen
#3. I've been the victim a lot, so I've often played the person who's getting raped or murdered or abused. And so, to actually be raping and murdering and abusing people is a whole different kind of challenge, and one that was very difficult, at times.
Lily Rabe
#4. The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not yet purified. But when they amend their lives, his delight is indescribable and knows no bounds.
Maximus The Confessor
#5. When you're smart on crime, you start off by recognizing that both the victim, first of all, the victim, but also the person who did the crime are both human.
Benjamin Jealous
#6. The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
Leo Buscaglia
#7. The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#8. Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.
Haruki Murakami
#9. I like surprises. I like mystery. I'm not the kind of person who goes to the writer's room and goes, I need to know the whole story so I can prepare. No, don't tell me anything!
Josh Holloway
#10. There are dimensions to me that are not just the thinking person, but the person who is much richer, the person who has other emotional experiences, psychological experiences, these experiences also enrich me.
George Coyne
#11. New people arrive and they could be Jewish or Irish or Polish or even coloured. Our old customers are moving out to Long Island and we can't follow them, so we need new customers every week. We treat everyone the same. We welcome every single person who comes into this store
Colm Toibin
#12. I check my phone first thing when I wake up in the morning. I usually take it up with me to bed so it's on the floor next to the bed, although not actually in bed with me, because I really do not want to be the person who sleeps with their phone.
Jami Attenberg
#13. Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
Kevin Systrom
#14. He had found the courage once in his life to seize a chance at love from a person who knew how to give it. Lena prayed on these two moons that she would find that same courage.
Ann Brashares
#15. We work in this cave, and we speak to each other sort of subconsciously and with like, weird cues and tangential brother speak, but it really comes down to if you are the person who is moving amongst the actors and talking to people more, the other one can have a little more time to really watch.
Mark Duplass
#16. For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.
Honore De Balzac
#17. There is nothing crueler than the person who doesn't want you enough to keep you, but who doesn't love you enough to let you go.
Megan Hart
#18. That's how I felt about this miserable quest: every person I talked to would let me down until I found the one person who could help me figure out that night.
Gillian Flynn
#19. There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.
Napoleon Hill
#20. How would I like to be remembered? As a person who came and brought light to the world, some escapism. Also as the voice for the voiceless children, because I love them.
Michael Jackson
#21. An average person who develops the habit of setting clear priorities and getting important tasks completed quickly will run circles around a genius who talks a lot and makes wonderful plans but gets very little done.
Brian Tracy
#22. If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. I'm not a person who can scream and shout so this is my only outlet. It's all done very logically.
Richey Edwards
#24. Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
Napoleon Hill
#25. No matter what
anyone says, we all care, to a
certain extent, how others
view us. We may not care
what everyone thinks of us,
but there's always that one
person, who with a few words
holds the power that could
make us or break us.
Alison G. Bailey
#26. Development is not about learning how to counsel but about becoming the kind of person who can counsel.
Dave Mearns
#27. In physics, your solution should convince a reasonable person. In math, you have to convince a person who's trying to make trouble. Ultimately, in physics, you're hoping to convince Nature. And I've found Nature to be pretty reasonable.
Frank Wilczek
#28. I'm going to be a person who writes stories.
I never told mom and dad how much I loved them.
I wanna be someone who can tell a lot of people how much I love them.
Kimama Aoboshi
#29. An educated person is a person who has so developed the faculties of their mind that they can acquire anything they want
Bob Proctor
#30. If a person who is content with his life meets someone who makes everything just a little bit more challenging, who both fits and doesn't fit into his life and his routine, to quote Guy Fieri, it is On Like Donkey Kong: swing the rope, jump the barrel, and save the princess.
Sarah Wendell
#31. I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
Yann Martel
#32. You're so beautiful, Dominique. Its such a lovely accident on God's part that there's one person who matches inside and out.
Ayn Rand
#33. Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.
Piers Anthony
#34. No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man
Ernest Shackleton
#35. A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.
Mary McCarthy
#36. A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.
Paul Washer
#37. Remember, a person who wins success may have been counted out many times before. He wins because he refuses to give up.
Kemmons Wilson
#38. Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
Betty Comden
#39. The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
Edward Abbey
#40. We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.
Alex Rosa
#41. People incline to doubt the superiority of a person who will associate with them.
Mary Catherwood
#42. Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw
#43. The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that.
Kristi Bowman
#44. Why does this person who is sitting behind a desk and never watches cartoons is arguing about what cartoons should be like. Its so creepy realizing that this person is a lunatic.
Jhonen Vasquez
#45. Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#46. If you could kick the posterior of the person who has hurt you the most, ... you wouldn't be able to sit down for six weeks.
John Hagee
#47. What is wisdom? It is the result of multiple paradigms brought to their intellectual furthest reaches and balanced and merged together. The fundamentalist, the person who only sees life through a single lens, can never hope for wisdom.
James Rozoff
#48. And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Bodhidharma
#49. You are the only person who can build emotional barriers, but you're also the only person who can topple them. Other people can't knock down the walls you've built, no matter how much they love you. You have to tear them down yourself because there's something worth seeing on the other side.
Emery Lord
#50. When you spend your entire life as a child actress, being told where to go and where to stand, you're performing constantly for people. It definitely breeds the kind of person who's dependent on other people's approval.
Kirsten Dunst
#51. Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care of
yourself? You bet. But a person who's willing to work and pay their own way
can at least take pride in that even if they can't take pride in anything else.
John Hawkins
#52. It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
Patrick Ewing
#53. I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.
Joy Bryant
#54. I am deeply grateful for all the friendships that I have all across this district, especially here in Ithaca. Ithacas a wonderful place. Im very proud to be the person who represents the city and some of Tompkins County.
Maurice Hinchey
#55. I tend to be a person who, when I get interested in something, I get obsessed by it ... What happens to me is that I will fall in love with a particular ingredient or a particular dish ... Once I make the decision that something has intrigued me enough to draw me in, there is no end to it.
Crescent Dragonwagon
#56. Warmth, kindness, and friendship are the most yearned for commodities in the world. The person who can provide them will never be lonely.
Ann Landers
#57. A Cannibal is a person who walks into a restaurant and orders a waiter.
Morey Amsterdam
#58. All things want to float as light as air through the world witnessing all that is. I am a mote of dust floating freely in the firmament, a person who merely is, and I feel full of joy for all worldly treasures, the immaculate gift of life.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#59. One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room ...
Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not.
The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
Seth Godin
#60. There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that.
Daniel Day-Lewis
#61. This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Leo Buscaglia
#62. 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
#63. And besides, it feels more covert to have no evidence. To believe that something you've experienced will build on your extent - your extent as a person who sees things, and is moved by things - without ever having to prove those things happened exactly as they happened.
Durga Chew-Bose
#64. [I'm] very fortunate and blessed person who still has a lot of living to do.
Condoleezza Rice
#65. A prude is a person who thinks that his own rules of propriety are natural laws.
Robert A. Heinlein
#66. We can't ignore right-wing demagogues who insist that the word of the doctor who proclaims a child's sex at birth somehow holds more sway over the reality of the body than the word of the person who inhabits it. - Gwendolyn Ann Smith
Kate Bornstein
#67. The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street.
Bernard Madoff
#68. Children must have at least one person who believes in them. It could be a counselor, a teacher, a preacher, a friend. It could be you. You never know when a little love, a little support will plant a small seed of hope.
Marian Wright Edelman
#69. The person who inspired me the most was a friend of mine, Anita Roddick. I know that Anita wasn't known to be an ardent feminist, but she truly was.
Annie Lennox
#70. The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
Karl Barth
#71. The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
Gary Chapman
#72. To believe in Jesus, is to believe that the historic person who lived on this earth more than 2000 years ago was the image of the invisible God. That's a huge leap of faith, but it is my leap of faith, it's the act of faith of the Christian community.
Richard Rohr
#73. Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
Ambrose Bierce
#74. As a singer, you can't hear what's coming out of your throat; you're only hearing it from the inside, so you need a trusted person who knows how your voice works. It's like a car. You take it to the same mechanic because they know it inside out, and every time you get it back, it works fantastic.
Stephen Costello
#75. So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us.
Plutarch
#76. I've done a lot of tough stories over the years. I've done a lot of profiles over the years that have not always been, shall we say, helpful for the person who is being written about.
Mark Leibovich
#77. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
E.B. White
#78. I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
Grimes
#79. Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce
#80. She says "immediately" in a way to let the person who parked the car know that she is annoyed. She could just say, "Please move your car from the circle. And whoever you are, I am annoyed that you parked there" but instead she says "immediately," which seems nicer and not so nice at the same time.
Matthew Dicks
#81. For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
Meister Eckhart
#82. The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
Caitlin Fitzgerald
#83. I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.
Howell Raines
#84. I fully realize that a person who stands for what I stand for, an activist, a gay activist, becomes the target or the potential target for a person who is insecure, terrified, afraid, or very disturbed with themselves.
Harvey Milk
#85. There are certain aspects of acting that I don't like. I'm not a person who loves being on set. I mean, I know people that have their espresso machines in their trailers and they like being in there and they put pictures on walls. But I don't like it. I don't like sitting around.
Joaquin Phoenix
#86. Forgiveness is tricky, Alexis, because in the end it's more about you than it's about the person who's being forgiven
Cynthia Hand
#87. This was basically the first time I got to act in action scenes, with things blowing up all around me. It sounds corny, but I think every actor would like to - at least once in his or her career - play the person who saves the entire world.
Lukas Haas
#88. Your childhood dream delights God. I don't say that because every secret dream will come true. But having a dream is evidence of a person who is fully alive. Having a dream is a reflection of the image of God.
Emily P. Freeman
#89. That amazing moment when your crush has a crush on you. It's a wonderful feeling knowing that the person who you want to be in a relationship with likes or loves you back.
Piers Morgan
#90. I am a person of faith: I am a person who will believe practically anything on no evidence at all.
Christopher Hitchens
#91. Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
Ambrose Bierce
#92. The kind of person who listens to our music doesn't want to live a bit and die a little and find a friend. The kind of person who listens to our music wants to live forever and die a lot and fall in love.
Ray Robertson
#93. My father was a very warm, gregarious, sociable person who had many interests. He lived his life very much in the present, full of activities and the next project. He had many hobbies. He was not given to retrospection.
Diana Quick
#94. I've always heard your best match in life is the person who is the opposite of you that makes a complete whole.
Amber L. Johnson
#95. The person who fears God seeks to live all of life to the glory of God ... All the activities of life should be pursued with the aim of glorifying God.
Jerry Bridges
#96. A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.
Joyce Brothers
#97. Because in no other person but the historic Jesus of Nazareth has God become man and lived a human life on earth, died to bear the penalty of our sins, and been raised from death and exalted to glory, there is no other Savior, for there is no other person who is qualified to save.
John Stott
#98. When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
Bryan Brown
#99. The person who has read just a single book argues.
The person who has read the entire library watches in silence.
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