Persons Quotes · Page 103

To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying...…

— Jane Horrocks

Words can mean different things to different people. It is important to understand what people mean when they use a certain word.…

— Ali Sina

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the…

— Vinny Guadagnino

I'm definitely hesitant wearing shorts during the summer. Like for a pale person, you know, summer - everyone in the world is…

— Jim Gaffigan

A lot of that will depend on who the person is on [Donald] Trump's, you know, right hand side, whether it's [Stephen]…

— George Stephanopoulos

Each person is a really a great treasure house of capacities, possibilities, energies.

— Jean Houston

The first step to forgiveness is the desire to do it, no matter how you feel toward the person who hurt you.…

— Joyce Meyer

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

— Alan Alda

I think I do become someone else. In real life, I’m very shy, but people think I’m this angry, sexy kind of...…

— Lara Stone

It's easy to be a tough competitor and still be the kind of person with whom people love to compete.

— Chuck Thompson

I do have a very conscious desire not to be academic. I'm antiacademic. I hate jargon. I hate that sort of pretension.…

— William H. Gass

The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference…

— Dannion Brinkley

Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

I've found that a person does not need protein from meat to be a successful athlete. In fact, my best year of…

— Carl Lewis

I wish I was a more adventurous person in a way. But actually, security is a really big deal for me.

— Romola Garai

When I talk about forgiveness, I mean letting go, not excusing the other person or reconciling with them or condoning the behavior.…

— Dean Ornish

Keep in mind the challenging fact that your aim is not to get ahead of others, but to surpass yourself; to begin…

— Hugh B. Brown

I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the…

— Jonathan Davis

Whenever you make love to someone, there should be three people involved - you, the other person, and the devil.

— Robert Mapplethorpe

I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.

— Patricia Marx

Every fairly intelligent person is aware that the price of respectability is a muffled soul bent on the trivial and the mediocre.

— Walter Lippmann

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in…

— Jean Webster

That is an extremely important role: how white brothers and sisters laterally spread knowledge, insight, and challenge in a way that white…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's…

— Jodi Picoult

I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.'…

— Patti Smith

I think the most important thing for me is a challenge. I'm not happy, creatively, unless I'm faced with a challenge. So,…

— Ksenia Solo

Little persons try to be perfect while great ones do not know they are great.

— Vikrant Parsai

One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out…

— Manuel Alvarez Bravo

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

— Jason Jones

I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.

— Barney Frank

There was a time when I let go of the reins and thought, What's meant to happen will happen. That's probably one…

— Rashida Jones

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

— William Throsby Bridges

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes…

— Kay Panabaker

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually…

— George Lucas

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

— Mia Wasikowska

I was a very driven person, wanting to help and to do good, hopefully to write and teach in a meaningful way…

— Mark Nepo

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What…

— Epictetus

One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person.

— Nicole Krauss