To A Person Quotes

#1. If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Karen DeCrow

#2. It's only in silence that you can judge of your relationship to a person.

Dorothy Richardson

#3. If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Marriage is success as long as you are married to a person you truly love; otherwise, it is merely convenience and a waste of two people's time.

Ben Tolosa

#5. There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

Margaret Deland

#6. Gossip involves saying behind a person's back what you would never say to his or her face. Flattery means saying to a person's face what you would never say behind his or her back.

R. Kent Hughes

#7. Your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them, ...

Dorothy Uhnak

#8. I looked at her when she was saying this and I realized that there is absolutely nothing you can say to a person who would feel comfortable suggesting something like that, let alone a direct accusation.

Harvey Pekar

#9. With growing disbelief, Jess yet again felt herself slipping into the gap - that gap of perception between what is really happening to a person and what others think is happening.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. When a goal matters enough to a person, that person will find a way to accomplish what at first seemed impossible.

Nido Qubein

#11. People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?

Gunter Grass

#12. Sometimes one moment can give you the whole key to a person.

Moira Katson

#13. Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.

Rick Perry

#14. Music is one way of saying things that you cannot really say to a person face to face, a sign of suppressed anger, unhealthy, deadly and gigantic idolatry.

The Eldest

#15. I never lied to a person in my life; my kids didn't, either.

Art Modell

#16. My mind felt numb, like I couldn't really grasp the hurtful things that I had just recently learned. I was well aware that it was my body's defense mechanism. Shock always did that to a person...enveloped them in a cocoon of decreased sensitivity to allow them to process their hurt.

Courtney Cole

#17. If you only talk to a person's head and not their heart people won't listen to you.

Les Brown

#18. But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.

Lance Henriksen

#19. If you can sit here and talk to a person you don't know very well, and talk about all these things you've been through - that's something. That's courage. It's knowing yourself.

Hector Tobar

#20. Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

Leo Buscaglia

#21. I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

Harvey Pekar

#22. Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person ... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

Georges Bataille

#23. Art is one of the few products that is almost a totally emotional buy. It is a mystery what contributes to a person's personal taste. However, being educated about the artist and his/her career may influence your decision regarding a purchase.

Ernest West Basden

#24. There was madness in those eyes. Love does that to a person.

Alessandra Torre

#25. Success can come to a person who has failed, but it will never come to a person who quits

David Jeremiah

#26. Success does not come to a person's life by chance; you have to fight for it

Sunday Adelaja

#27. How can someone who means so much to a person mean nothing the next day?

Susane Colasanti

#28. She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit whole inside the soul, undiminished by conversation, by any attempt at translation or persuasion.

Elizabeth Berg

#29. When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Andre Holland

#30. Interpretation is directly related to a person's frame of mind. Looking at the same image, a person could see two different things depending on the mood that person is in at the time.

Chris Carter

#31. A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious union.

Rudolf Dreikurs

#32. But as a property owner of Orlando, I wouldn't rent to someone who is gay any more than I would rent to a person who is a practicing witch.

Alan Chambers

#33. The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

Thomas Jefferson

#34. When you say to a person of colour, 'When I see you, I don't see you Black; I just see everybody the same' think about that. You don't have the right to say to a person, 'I do not see you as you are; I want to see you as I would be more comfortable seeing you.'

Jane Elliott

#35. There is a vast difference between devotion to a person and devotion to principles or to a cause. Our Lord never proclaimed a cause- He proclaimed personal devotion to Himself. To be a disciple is to be a devoted bondservant motivated by love for the Lord Jesus.

Oswald Chambers

#36. How do you say everything you've wanted to say to a person who has been a big part of your life and doesn't know you at all? "Diane,

Joseph Fink

#37. Whenever Roosevelt (Theodore) expected a visitor, he sat up late the night before, reading up on the subject in which he knew his guest was particularly interested. For Roosevelt knew, all the leaders royal road to a person's heart is to talk about the things he or she treasures most.

Dale Carnegie

#38. When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

Joseph Campbell

#39. An assault on an ideology is not merely different from a threat made to a person; it is the opposite of a threat made to a person. The whole end of liberal civilization is to substitute the criticism of ideas for assaults on people.

Adam Gopnik

#40. Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.

Anne Enright

#41. I wondered if that principle of renewal could be applied to a person. If you left a girl alone, she could learn to heal herself. She could consciously forget bad things, or at least learn to live with them.

Heather Crews

#42. A lot can happen to a person's appearance in three months.

Veronica Roth

#43. If you give your trust to a person who does not deserve it, you actually give him the power to destroy you.

Khaled Saad

#44. How many times have I told you never listen to a person's words; watch their actions to see what is in their heart. A person can say many things they do not mean." Charlie to Beth

Lynsay Sands

#45. What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well half an hour?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#46. Then they went on to discuss other things because there is always something more to a person than what somebody else does to them.

Sarah Schulman

#47. It's a very complicated matter to become enlightened. If it happens to a person without a teacher in this lifetime, you can bet their boots, they've had about a thousand teachers in their last thousand lives because it's a very complicated thing to do.

Frederick Lenz

#48. It was a metaphysical perception that an end could never come to a person who was more alive than anyone I'd ever known.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#49. When you begin to see that this assignment of extreme virtue or evil to a person or object is what makes them an object of lust or hatred, the emotion built on that exaggeration backs off; we

Dalai Lama XIV

#50. Let's run, she wanted to beg him. Let's run, let's run ... But then again, she knew what happened to a person on the run. They chase you and then they throw you to the ground and they rip you and break you ...

Holly Schindler

#51. Maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix - not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

Jodi Picoult

#52. Devotion, as it relates to the title of my memoir, means fidelity - as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think it's certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith, at least in the religious sense of the word.

Dani Shapiro

#53. To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

#54. In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions.

Mahatma Gandhi

#55. A person who has power has an open mind. Their mind is open and they can see on other levels. Seeing is a quality that comes to a person who has personal power.

Frederick Lenz

#56. With someone you like that much, the lows are as low as the highs are high. Does that make sense?'
It does. It also makes me sound bipolar.'
Love will do that to a person.

Simone Elkeles

#57. Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

Tracy Morgan

#58. I'm curious," he said, "is telling someone to relax ever helpful? It's like saying 'breathe' to someone who is hyperventilating or 'swallow' to a person who's choking. It's a completely useless admonition." "I

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#59. To a person growing up in the power of demography, it was clear that history had to do not with the powerful actions of certain men but with the processes of choice and preference.

George W. S. Trow

#60. This film isn't about "white racism", or racism at all. DEAR WHITE PEOPLE is about identity. It's about the difference between how the mass culture responds to a person because of their race and who they understand themselves to truly be. And this societal conflict appears to be one that many share.

Justin Simien

#61. In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

Rollo May

#62. Making love to a person in their sleep is the only guarantee they'll wake up with a smile on their face.

Bauvard

#63. You can see a person without using your eyes,
hear a person without using your ears,
carry a person without using your hands,
speak to a person without using your mouth,
and move a person without using your feet.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#64. It was like wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and what-it-meant.

Joe Hill

#65. 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

#66. Physical courage to a person of honour is easier and less risky than acts that could subject him to embarrassment or humiliation or a diminished career or reputation. These things he must live with. To die for honor is an easier thought to bear.

Michael Josephson

#67. I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

Debbie Reynolds

#68. Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.

Allan Kaprow

#69. Ash had said that eyes were windows to a person's soul, but hers were the windows to his. ~ Dante

Marita A. Hansen

#70. Take the emotional temperature of those listening to you. Facial expressions, voice inflection and posture give clues to a person's mood and attitude.

John C. Maxwell

#71. The very best thing for music would be to live next door to a person who listens to loud music so you could mishear music everyday and mutate it to your own means.

Dar Williams

#72. His gaze was unblinking. Lacking eyelids will do that to a person.

Jeaniene Frost

#73. Biblical counseling is listening to a person long enough until you hear a violation of scripture.

Henry R Brandt

#74. Why did the best answers to unfounded criticism always come to a person while stewing about the situation afterward?

Laura Lee Guhrke

#75. A book is like a person, and one's reaction to a person invariably has more to do with one's own personality and life experience than with the actual person herself.

Chandler Burr

#76. 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

#77. Fashion is a tool ... to compete in life outside the home. People like you better, without knowing why, because people always react well to a person they like the looks of.

Mary Quant

#78. You'll never get to a person's soul until you understand their hurts.

Ravi Zacharias

#79. I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#80. It's mysterious what attracts you to a person.

Jeff Goldblum

#81. When you come to religion, you come to a place.
When you come to Jesus Christ, you come to a person.

Ravi Zacharias

#82. If you lie to a person at least tell someone else you've lied to the truth. It balances out your karma.

Dane Cook

#83. Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person.

Nicholas Sparks

#84. Drinking is a fast-forward button; it makes you feel close to a person so quickly.

Alison Rosen

#85. Life is strange and funny with many winding roads ahead ... but the roads of greed and hypocrisy will lead to a person's downfall each and every time.

Timothy Pina

#86. But love? True love? As wretched as loneliness could be, it was nothing compared to the pain of betrayal. He'd seen with his own eyes what "love" did to a person - how it built hopes that were rarely, if ever, realized. Falling in love meant being weak, vulnerable to the whims of another.

Karen Hawkins

#87. [...] Like the God in whose image people are made, people are irreducible. There's always more to a person - more stories, more life, more complexities - than we know. The human person, when viewed properly, is unfathomable, incalculable, and dear. Perversion always says otherwise.

David Dark

#88. Indeed, the application of the adjective "stoic" to a person who shows strength and courage in misfortune probably owes more to the aristocratic Roman value system than it does to Greek philosophers. Stoicism

Marcus Aurelius

#89. Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

Judy Blume

#90. When love allows you to be who you are truly and deeply, the nakedness of the body holds no significant power to the attributes of the pureness of one's soul. Being able to connect to a person in a way where the bodies become one, the heart becomes one, and the souls become entangled as one. "When

Zoya

#91. Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

Edgar Degas

#92. Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

Michel Templet

#93. But what is it that drives haters crazy with rage? Many times, it's being ignored. To a person with pride, being ignored is often worse than out-and-out hate; it's that much more of an insult, that you're not even worth noticing.

Bill Maher

#94. The blues comes right back to a person's feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don't know nothing about the blues, please believe me.

Jimmy Rushing

#95. With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways.

Andre Benjamin

#96. The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.

Juan Gabriel Vasquez

#97. Mistakes don't have to be wounds. A mistake can sometimes be the best thing that can happen to a person.

Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

#98. In Judaism, the way you learn to love someone is by giving to them," she said. "The more you give to a person, the more you end up loving them. If love is just a feeling, and that feeling changes, then what? Love has to be something you choose to build.

Kristin Newman

#99. Dogs have a lot to communicate to a person willing to listen.

Susan Butcher

#100. A possession considered of little value up to now suddenly becomes precious to a person if another person desires it, don't you think?

Christa Wolf