Top 100 The Person Who Quotes
#1. You don't want to be the smartest person in the room; you want to be the dumbest in the room. You want to be surrounded by other thinking people who are going to say something that makes you think, "Oh, my God, that's an amazing idea. Why didn't I think of that."
Madonna Ciccone
#2. And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
Robert Mueller
#3. In the Book of Benamii, we have all read that it's better for one person in power to die, if their rule is unjust, than an entire nation to forget the God who made them.
Michelle Erickson
#4. When you can't bear something but it goes on anyway, the person who survives isn't you anymore; you've changed and become someone else, a new person, the one who did bear it after all.
Austin Grossman
#6. Worry is nothing but practical infidelity. The person who worries reveals his lack of trust in God and that he is trusting too much in self.
Lee Roberson
#7. The only other person attending who was close to her age was Father St. Laurent, a devastatingly good-looking Roman Catholic priest who made the RC's vows of celibacy seem like a crime against the human gene pool.
Julia Spencer-Fleming
#8. The person who has been photographed, not the total person, is dead, dead for having been seen.
Christian Metz
#9. I'm the type of person who wakes up at 12 AM just to write down a sudden idea that gets in my head. I have a never ending imagination.
B.A. Gabrielle
#10. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.
Osho
#11. I feel like I'm the only person - or woman, at least - who hasn't read 'Fifty Shades of Grey.'
Carla Gugino
#12. The only person who can make you miserable is yourself, if you hold back because
you're too afraid of failure to take a chance.
Shana Norris
#13. The person who has been accustomed to subdue men by force will be less inclined to the trouble of convincing or persuading them.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#14. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.
William Whewell
#15. The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#16. And Juniper had understood, somehow, that in Tom she'd found the person who could balance her, and that more than anything, to fall in love was to be caught, to be saved ...
Kate Morton
#17. A person who seems to have all of the answers, usually isn't listening.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#18. When I was young and crazy, I was young and crazy. It can be hard enough just to BE in your teens and 20s. Then add fame, money, access, and every single person telling you that you're the greatest person who ever was, and it can be a recipe for disaster. Some people literally don't survive it.
Rob Lowe
#19. I was very aware that you were a girl, Ash. I was just scared because the one person in the world who knew every secret I'd ever had also happened to be the most beautiful girl I'd ever known. My feelings for you were scary as Hell.
Abbi Glines
#20. Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?
Clarice Lispector
#21. Be grateful for every single person who was part of your story.The ones that hurt you. The ones that helped you. Because they all taught you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#22. The person who gossips is a terrorist who drops a bomb, destroys, and they destroy others.
Pope Francis
#23. I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#24. Somehow I feel that a person who thinks he has discovered the absolute truth will not be someone I know.
Manu Joseph
#25. The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.
Frederick Lenz
#26. I was the person, I think, who first said the evening of September 11 that we shouldn't hold this against the Arab community, the Muslim community. We should focus on the individuals and that groups that were involved and not participate in group blame.
Rudy Giuliani
#27. It took me 30 years to figure out who I really am, as a person, and who I want to surround myself with. I was very much the kind of person who would just meld in with whatever group I was near.
Katie Aselton
#28. I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.
Anna Kendrick
#29. The serial bully, who in my estimation accounts for about one person in thirty in society, is the single most important threat to the effectiveness of organisations, the profitability of industry, the performance of the economy, and the prosperity of society.
Tim Field
#30. He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.
Alice Munro
#31. Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.
Nadege Richards
#32. A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.
Parker J. Palmer
#33. If you want to know the value of a second, ask the person who just crossed the road at the wrong time and barely escaped being hit by a speeding car.
Sunday Adelaja
#34. Emma, who had also been twelve, had not been shy about letting the world know she thought Jace was the handsomest and most amazing person who had ever graced the planet with his presence.
Cassandra Clare
#35. There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.
Edward Lear
#36. I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.
Toni Morrison
#37. A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it.
But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target.
So does gossip.
Vera Nazarian
#38. What I do when I create a character is put in details from all the people I know who might be like that person, and then put in a huge amount of myself.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#39. The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#40. Sometimes the guilty one is not the person who has committed the crime, but the person who has created the possibility for it to be committed.
Cristiane Serruya
#41. There's a few in our history, where the person who creates it becomes almost the product itself. Jobs is one of those.
Joshua Michael Stern
#42. What better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you?
Nick Hornby
#43. I always knew what was most important to me. When I was growing up, nothing was more important than golf, but that's the attitude of a young person who hasn't a care in the world. Later on I figured it out. Family was first. Always. Then golf and business come after.
Arnold Palmer
#44. A leader is not just a person who gives orders. He is also the one who symbolises the society he leads. If the leader is corrupt, then the society must be corrupt too.
Amish Tripathi
#45. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Anonymous
#46. I don't like most contemporary art. But I think if you talked to any person who's heavily involved in contemporary art, they'd say the same thing. If you go to a biennale, you don't expect to like much of it.
Tom Rachman
#47. Everyone who has any talent at all in sketching, painting, sculpturing or carving, should have the opportunity to use that talent. The expression is important for the person, and can tremendously enrich the lives of other people. What can you do?
Edith Schaeffer
#48. Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, I'm going to ask you to come with me.
David Sedaris
#49. Even though now I'm pretty popular in my country and tennis is the No. 1 sport, and I'm very flattered that the people recognise me and come up and give me compliments, I'm more a person who likes to have privacy and peace.
Novak Djokovic
#50. It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.
John Green
#51. I firmly believe that usually, the person who hurt you doesn't realize what they've done or how much it hurt you. So, continue to pray for the person or situation that caused your pain and anger. Ask God to give you understanding about why they did what they did.
Joyce Meyer
#52. The wealthiest person on earth is the one who appreciates
Tony Robbins
#53. If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.
Jim Rohn
#54. Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.
Rene Lavand
#55. What makes the gospel good news isn't the concept, but the real-life person who has been changed by it.[90]
Jen Hatmaker
#56. It's love. Love makes us beautiful. Do you know a single person who loves and is loved, who is loved unconditionally and who, at the same time, is ugly? There's no need to ponder the question.
Jan-Philipp Sendker
#57. Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. What matters is being a particular kind of person. At the most basic level, it matters that you are the kind of person who resolves problems with force of thought and feeling instead of with the force of arms.
Brendan Myers
#59. The individual who no longer has a rigid mind has found freedom. Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink.
George Ohsawa
#60. I'm the kind of person who buys a new thing, wears it so much and then is totally sick of it.
Kirsten Dunst
#61. The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet
#62. However good or bad you feel about your relationship, the person you are with at this moment is the "right" person, because he or she is the mirror of who you are inside.
Deepak Chopra
#63. Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
Jane Chen
#64. If I was discovered by anyone, it would be Stephen O'Neil, who saw me in a play at Williamstown and introduced me to my team who I'm still with today. He was the first person to introduce me to the film and TV world. Other than that, I just assumed I would be a theater actor my whole life.
Logan Marshall-Green
#65. I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.
Daesung
#66. I'm really close to my parents and my sisters. It is awesome to have a built-in support system and people who love you unconditionally. I wouldn't be the person I am without my crew!
Marisa Miller
#67. When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Enric Sala
#68. I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
Orhan Pamuk
#69. Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.
Meher Baba
#70. The person who finds peace inside and lives it, is the one who teaches what true peace is.
Byron Katie
#71. Sita waits anxiously, and the next person she sees is a wandering monk who begs her for alms.
Deepak Chopra
#72. Sometimes I even feel funny to say I'm in a biracial marriage because people are like, 'Oh, he's Asian?' The subtext is, 'Who cares? You didn't marry a black person.'
Diane Farr
#73. It's so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure and its pain. The world is a beautiful place. How often do we say this aloud?
Vicki Forman
#74. The house of a childless person is a void, all directions are void to one who has no relatives, the heart of a fool is also void, but to a poverty stricken man all is void.
Chanakya
#75. What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?
Kim Gordon
#76. Every person who will learn the right way, and who will then continue diligently to follow that right way, is absolutely certain in time to possess great riches and all attending blessings.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#77. It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.
Jo Coudert
#78. The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed.
Dean Koontz
#79. A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.
Mark Twain
#80. The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
G. M. Trevelyan
#81. You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.
Scott Spencer
#82. A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Wilson Mizner
#83. The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know'. The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#84. As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
Ada Leverson
#85. Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.
Eliot Porter
#86. Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#87. because of the fact I now have a son and I am raising him to avoid the very person who is supposed to protect us. Who is going to protect me from the person that is supposed to be protecting me?
Zachary Turnage
#88. Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.
Julia A. Schumacher
#89. The only thing worse than a social networking junkie who breaks out in a cold sweat if she hasn't updated her page in the past ten seconds is the person (usually it's a guy) who proudly refuses to join Facebook. You know, that same d-bag who held out on getting a cell phone until, like, 2002.
Andrea Lavinthal
#90. We passed through glowering statues of monsters and gods whom I'd fought in person- the vulture Nekhbet, who'd once possessed my Gran (Long story); the crocodile Sobek, who'd tried to kill my cat (longer story); and the lion goddess Sekhmet, whom we'd once vanished with hot sauce (don't even ask)
Rick Riordan
#91. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.
Lemony Snicket
#92. I get a phone call once every 18 months from some mad person who wants me to do something for less than no money and they give me about a week's notice. That's my film career, most of the time.
Dylan Moran
#93. My only description for me is that there's no throwaway people. That's the creed that I live by. It doesn't matter if I'm singing or not. That's the kind of person that my father and mother wanted me to be. The end obligation is to make people feel good about who they are.
Arlo Guthrie
#94. Every person has a different view of another person's image. That's all perception. The character of a man, the integrity, that's who you are.
Steve Alford
#95. I've said many times that in a way I think it might have been Bo who saved me. I was trying to save him, but I came out the other side a better person for knowing him.
Mercy Celeste
#96. The person who does not believe in miracles surely makes it certain that he or she will never take part in one.
William Blake
#97. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.
Emily Giffin
#98. A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.
Constance Baker Motley
#99. 'Citizen Ruth' I saw when I was in college, and I really flipped out over it. I just knew I wanted to work with the person who made that movie.
Judy Greer
#100. If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.
Maya Angelou
