The Person Quotes

#1. The person who sits at his or her desk the longest is not necessarily the best. In fact, he or she might also be the least efficient. It's also often the case that people with family responsibilities are particularly productive at work.

Kristina Schroder

#2. You can tell if the person is beautiful inside after the autopsy

Haresh Daswani

#3. The ability to forge a unique path with occasional dips, detours, and even dead ends presents a better chance for fulfillment. Plus, a jungle gym provides great views for many people, not just those at the top. On a ladder, most climbers are stuck staring at the butt of the person above.

Sheryl Sandberg

#4. Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.

Tila Tequila

#5. After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

Wil Wheaton

#6. The most profound, tangible influence in my life has been my wife, Monique. I don't know that I would even be alive were it not for her, and I certainly would not be the person that I am today.

Edgar Winter

#7. Most often the person you would die for would settle for dinner and a movie.

Robert Breault

#8. I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Janet McTeer

#9. Everybody sees but once in awhile stars glide and hope flickers when you meet someone who see through the person you have for so long pretended to be.

Donal O'Callaghan

#10. I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love.

Lynn Schusterman

#11. I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

Augusten Burroughs

#12. The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.

Frank Leahy

#13. Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

Elbert Hubbard

#14. Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.

Henri Bergson

#15. He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.

Michael Lewis

#16. When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.

Chetan Bhagat

#17. Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.

Soren Kierkegaard

#18. When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in the room.

Pepe Romero

#19. I am pessimistic about a picture's power to be the emissary of just one thing. What I hope is that the picture says, "Here I am, this is what I am like," and the person seeing the picture says in return, 'You know a lot but you don't know half of what I know.'

Emmet Gowin

#20. I've been losing me for a while
my reflection appears partial
as I often feel less than I've been
and further away from the person
I'd like to be.

R H Sin

#21. I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

Jane Birkin

#22. The person she loved is dead, stolen by someone else. Mine chose to walk away. Chose everything I hate over everything I am. I wonder which hurts more. Before

Victoria Aveyard

#23. Even if I only got to spend that first drive to the planetarium with Theo, he broke me in a way everyone should be lucky to be cracked open at least once. I had the privilege of being destroyed by him until we found a better, real me inside of the person I was pretending to be.

Adam Silvera

#24. There's a way of doing comedy that feels true to the person doing it, that doesn't feel like clown-work or silly faces and antics, but that feels real - like you're playing a real person who has real thoughts and feelings, and it's very grounded. I started to watch all comedy through that prism.

Andy Daly

#25. I always find myself loathing what I've just been before - the person who was living in the apartment that I just left, the person I was a year before. I constantly have the feeling of shedding skins and changing.

Joan Juliet Buck

#26. My mother is really the person I learned to curse from. She discourages me from saying that in interviews. But it's true.

Adam Mansbach

#27. Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be.

Robert Breault

#28. That's how badly people wanted it - to know that their lives had happened, that the person they once had been still existed inside of them.

Emma Cline

#29. So do you believe in second chances?" I bite my lip.
"Second, third, fourth. Whatever it takes. However long it takes. If the person is right," he adds.
"If the person is ... Lola?"
This time, he holds my gaze. "Only if the other person is Cricket.

Stephanie Perkins

#30. Bad things bring out the real you; the person hidden beneath all those layers of comfort.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#31. The evangelization of the person and of human communities depends totally on this encounter with Jesus Christ.

Pope Benedict XVI

#32. Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.

Kathleen Hanna

#33. In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, 'What would I do? How far would I go for the woman I loved? How far would I go, and what would I do when the person then told me that they were guilty? Could I still believe in them?' So it was very personal.

Paul Haggis

#34. In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

William Penn

#35. When you find the person you love, an act of ancient recognition brings you together.

John O'Donohue

#36. Not that kind of cheating," Mags said. "More like ... skipping ahead. If you like someone, you should have to make an effort. You should have to get to know the person
you should have to work for that first kiss.

Rainbow Rowell

#37. If you take a frown and turn it upside down, the person you are holding by the ankles will soon pass out.

Woody Allen

#38. Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

Claudio Naranjo

#39. I mean, like most guys, you carry around this girl in your head, who is exactly who you want her to be. The person you think you will love the most. And every girl you are with gets measured against this girl in your head.

Rachel Cohn

#40. COUNT ON ONLY 1 PERSON ..THE PERSON WHO YOU KNOW 100% WILL BE THERE WITH YOU WHEN YOU DRAW YOUR LAST BREATH OF LIFE ... THAT PERSON YOU MUST COUNT ON IS YOU!

Stuart J. Scesney

#41. Two a.m.' He swallowed, then said, You know. The person you can call at two a.m. and, no matter what, you can count on them. Even if they're asleep or it's cold or you need to be bailed out of jail ... they'll come for you. It's like, the highest level of friendship.

Sarah Dessen

#42. When you speak and represent the person of Jesus Christ in all actions of your life, people are drawn to that. You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

Kurt Warner

#43. But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn't allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule?

Ken Mehlman

#44. I make very proper clothes. But I was never that person. For a long time, I thought that was the image I needed to have for my brand. And I thought that's the person that I needed to be. Because it gave me a distinct image that no one can deny.

Jason Wu

#45. Surround yourself with people who can help you grow into the person you want to become.

Mensah Oteh

#46. In a sense you are always more clearly aware than I can be of what I am in the world; and when I confront my own face, there may be a moment of fear, as I try to fit the person whom I know so well to this thing that others know better

Roger Scruton

#47. Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness. Otherwise, one becomes like the person who lives as though dead.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#48. Perhaps sometimes in life, no matter how much you want to, you can't grow into the person you are meant to be while you're standing in the shade or the sunlight of someone else.

Mandy Hale

#49. I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

#50. We had spent only a few weeks together, five years ago, but when you finally meet the person who in daydreams you had sculpted without words, the transparency of time becomes the color of hair, and shapeless years become the shape of lips.

Simon Van Booy

#51. We take all these little calculated risks. All the time. Nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a thousand nothing goes wrong. And the one time it does, we blame the person who took the risk, tell them they should have known better than to ever do such a thing. Which

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#52. One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

Lewis Black

#53. I generally don't select my chicken or my hamburgers based on the personal ideology of the person who is either flipping the hamburgers or making the money back at corporate headquarters. But if people want to do that, they're free to do it.

Alan Dershowitz

#54. The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Brennan Manning

#55. The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.

Erwin McManus

#56. We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this respect, my love for her was a more selfish one

Zack Love

#57. 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

#58. So, it's a very, you know - maybe we're wrong in - you know, we go around thinking the innovator is the person who's first to kind of conceive of something. And maybe the innovation process continues down the line to the second and the third and the fourth entrant into a field.

Malcolm Gladwell

#59. In the case of 'The Bible' series and now 'Son of God,' it has been a combination of what I love to do and what I believe. To be able to do that with the person I love has just really been a blessing.

Roma Downey

#60. Without life's struggles, we cannot grow into the person that we are meant to become.

Auliq Ice

#61. I wondered who's world had just fallen apart as mine came together. I wondered who the person was that loved the donor most. I wondered who it was that had me feeling an insurmountable heap of guilt simply for needing the transplant and then living through it. I wondered who I owed my life to.

J.L. Mac

#62. No system is better than another, but some are better for certain people. The person makes a system worthwhile, not the other way around. I blended a lot of systems I had studied over the years, Judo, wrestling, boxing, Hapkido, Kenpo, Thai Boxing, American Kickboxing, Jujitsu, Aikido.

Joe R. Lansdale

#63. There's no way to explain how two people, or an animal and a person, connect. I guess it's just like when you fall in love. You don't choose the person you fall in love with. It just happens.

Juliana Haygert

#64. Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something.

Norah O'Donnell

#65. Then Peter began to speak: Now I really understand that God doesn't show favoritism, u 35 but in every nation the person who fears Him and does righteousness is acceptable to Him.

Anonymous

#66. Zara, sympathy is just a good excuse to buy greeting cards and make sorry eyes and secretly gloat over how glad you are that you aren't the person whose crap is hanging out for everyone to see.

Carrie Jones

#67. A good novel is the biography of an imaginary person--and when the biography is completed, the person is no longer imaginary; he is as real as his creator

William Edmund Barrett

#68. The Constitution provides for one democratic moment, Judge, before a lifetime of judicial independence, when the people of the United States are entitled to know as much as we can about the person that we're about to entrust with safeguarding our future and the future of our kids.

Joe Biden

#69. Our full humanity is contingent on our hospitality; we can be complete only when we are giving something away; when we sit at the table and pass the peas to the person next to us we see that person in a whole new way.

Alice Waters

#70. Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

B.F. Skinner

#71. I have had many experiences that were the same. The only difference was the person that I

Alfreda Lanoix

#72. But don't ever let yourself forget that the person you care about fills an emptiness no one else ever has and that while life with them can seriously suck at times, those
moments when it doesn't are worth all the aggravation of falling into the toilet and getting soaked when you're half asleep.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#73. Nobody has the power to hurt you more than the person who loves you the most.

Shannon Stacey

#74. Everything seems immoral until the person commits it.

M. T. Panchal

#75. My whole mantra is, "Go big or go home." I don't want to just play a guy who dresses up. I want to play the person who threw down.

Ron Perlman

#76. When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.

Ben Horowitz

#77. 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

#78. I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

Bonnie Hunt

#79. You can't take the human out of the person.

Tommy Tran

#80. 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

#81. 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

#82. The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

Karl Barth

#83. Love provides the person with the purpose of his life. Intellect shows him the means to achieve that purpose. Leo Tolstoy

Robin S. Sharma

#84. think I'd say the same. I had to go to hell to find the person I am today. And in the end, the road through hell led me straight to him.

A. Zavarelli

#85. Be the person others can count on to get things done

Larry Winget

#86. I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'

Alison Jackson

#87. The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Gary Chapman

#88. 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

#89. 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

#90. Intelligence is almost useless to the person whose only quality it is.

Alexis Carrel

#91. I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.

Grimes

#92. All human beings crave that closeness of another. Its the desire to have one person in the world want to be associated with them and to have the person choose and manage to be faithful to only you.

Miss Gath

#93. 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

#94. For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.

Meister Eckhart

#95. The secret of all true persuasion is to induce the person to persuade himself.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#96. Marriage is a long-term commitment. You should only step into that commitment if you truly love the person and want to spend your life with her.

Nick Vujicic

#97. The person most in control is the person who can give up control.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#98. The person performing the experiment becomes the object of the experiment himself; this is known as the illusion!

Dada Bhagwan

#99. The stretch of the limousine usually is inversely proportional to the self esteem of the person riding in it.

Denis Waitley

#100. The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.

Benedict Cumberbatch