Top 100 The Person Who Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Evil can never touch the person who refuses to accept it.
Piers Anthony
#5. 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
#6. Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.
Betty Comden
#7. We are all trying to get over the person who broke our hearts. We are all far from perfect.
Alex Rosa
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.
Bodhidharma
#12. It's the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.
Patrick Ewing
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. The person who has read just a single book argues.
The person who has read the entire library watches in silence.
Unknown
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. The person who is committing the sin of sloth may be doing nothing visible that is wrong. Yet he is rejecting the presence of God, refusing the joy of love.
Peter Kreeft
#22. No one knows that, except the person who's writing this story," said Shaggy. "But we won't find anything - not even supper - unless we travel on. Here's a path. Let's take it and see where it leads to.
L. Frank Baum
#23. The more charming person is the person who admits the other person is more charming.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#25. 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
#26. For the person who has learned to let go and let be, nothing can ever get in the way again.
Meister Eckhart
#27. 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
#28. I love a lot of very sentimental music, but I shouldn't necessarily be the person who makes it.
Grimes
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.
Gary Chapman
#32. The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.
Karl Barth
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. The locker rooms were clean when we departed because I asked the players to pick up after themselves. I believe this is just common courtesy. Somebody's going to have to clean it up, and I see no reason why it shouldn't be the person who messed it up.
John Wooden
#37. To me, the beauty of a quilt or a dress lies within the stitches and the thought of the person who made them. When you spend time making something with your two hands, you impart love in a way that buying never can.
Natalie
#38. To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.
Swami Vivekananda
#39. The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
Plato
#40. The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
Thomas Carlyle
#41. Alan Lomax is the person who I think should be given major credit for what has been called the "Folk Song Revival." My father participated with him because my father was a musicologist and urged trained musicians to learn about "the vernacular."
Pete Seeger
#42. There's a certain status to suffering in Ireland, that the person who - if you're sitting around a table, the person with the greatest status is the person who had the most horrible thing happen to them most recently.
Michael Lewis
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Nobody has the power to hurt you more than the person who loves you the most.
Shannon Stacey
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.
Erwin McManus
#49. The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.
Brennan Manning
#50. 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
#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. 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
#53. You will know the person who was meant to be in your life by how they make you feel spiritually. If they live in such a way that inspires you to become better then you have found someone you can evolve with vs. raise.
Shannon L. Alder
#54. Sisters, as you know, also have a unique relationship. This is the person who has known you your entire life, who should love you and stand by you no matter what, and yet it's your sister who knows exactly where to drive the knife to hurt you the most.
Lisa See
#55. The person who works harder when the boss isn't around is headed straight for a better job.
Napoleon Hill
#56. We all have the power to change the world ... It's just the person who is willing to do something about it who will.
Tanner Di Bella
#57. The Bible clearly teaches that when we turn our backs on God and choose to disregard His moral laws there are inevitable consequences. Furthermore it is not God who is to blame for the consequences, but the person who has broken His law.
Billy Graham
#58. And you look like a protagonist." She was talking as fast as she could think. "You look like the person who wins in the end. You're so pretty, and so good. You have magic eyes," she whispered. "And you make me feel like a cannibal.
Rainbow Rowell
#59. Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. Not a scar, no visible sign . . . to have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever. It is in your very skin.
J.K. Rowling
#60. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...
Barbara Elsborg
#62. The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the "creative" is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death.
May Sarton
#63. Everybody says love is about finding the person who is right for me and then everything will be fine. But it's not like that. It involves work. An old man tells you this!
Alain Badiou
#64. When did creating a flawless facade become a more vital goal than learning to love the person who lives inside your skin?
Ellen Hopkins
#65. The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.
Erich Fromm
#66. We forget that sometimes there is something greater than our pain. That's the pain of the person who loves us, who couldn't protect us from that pain.
Joey W. Hill
#67. If you tell a story enough times, it sounds like fiction. You don't feel that visceral throb of resonance with the person who is you, who did the things you did.
Leah Raeder
#68. I always say the person who taught me how to sing indirectly because I listened to her all the time was Brandy. I fell in love with her voice when I was six years old. I always loved Brandy.
Jhene Aiko
#69. Who ought to be the king of france-the person who has the title, or the man who has the power?
Pepin The Short
#70. If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...
Antoinette Bosco
#71. Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.
Donna Tartt
#73. Sometimes in life it is most wise to behave like a bridge: Don't judge the person who comes to you; let him come and pass! Behave like a bridge!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#74. My dad and my brother and my cousins carry him out to the car of the person who is least angry at him.
Stephen Chbosky
#75. Whatever controls us really is our god ... The person who seeks power is controlled by power. The person who seeks acceptance is controlled by the people he or she wants to please. We do not control ourselves. We are controlled by the lord of our life. (Rebecca Manley Pippert,
Timothy Keller
#76. Isn't that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who's your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning.
Jodi Picoult
#77. Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.
Brad Meltzer
#78. Is it painful to be the person who waits? Or is it more painful to be the person who makes others wait? Either way, there's no need to wait anymore. That's what is most painful. - Osamu Dazai
Osamu Dazai
#79. The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.
Shunryu Suzuki
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. Only the person who is essentially capable of remaining silent is capable of speaking essentially.
Soren Kierkegaard
#86. Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
Elbert Hubbard
#87. The person who properly disciplines himself to do those things that he does not especially care to do, becomes successful.
Frank Leahy
#88. Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
Vikas Swarup
#89. The repulsive actions of the person who abused you do not identify you.
Tanya R. Liverman
#90. We all just live in this giant cycle where we screw things up and hurt people we love, and then we turn around and try to atone for that by fixing other things. And maybe we're all just waiting on our turn for a broken heart and the person who will fix it.
Cora Carmack
#91. I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
Barbara Bush
#92. The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
George Bellows
#93. When caught under the weather of love, always choose the person who loves you unconditionally, and abandon the one who only loves you under favorable conditions.
Suzy Kassem
#94. You will never again be the person who had never tried tacos, because after you try one that person no longer exists. In a way he'll die, and someone new and more experienced will take his place." And
A.J.J. Bourque
#95. Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really lucky and ... are representative of some huge class of people who all want the same thing you do ... but very often that just turns into a side project that doesn't go anywhere.
Emmett Shear
#96. When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.
Peter Drucker
#97. In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
Susan Sontag
#98. I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.
John Waters
#99. There are two types of people who never achieve very much in their lifetimes. One is the person who won't do what s/he is told to do. And the other is the person who does no more than s/he is told to do. - Andrew Carnegie
Mark Sanborn
#100. Yam hi na vyathayanthy,
ete purusan purursarsabha,
Sama-dhuka-sugam dhirm
so mrtavaya kalpate - Bhagavt Gita
"The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and steady in both is certainly eligible for liberation
Bhagavatam
