Persons Quotes · Page 197

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

— Anonymous

One should not poke their nose into the private life of other persons.

— Dutee Chand

A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.

— Anthony Capella

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

For peace to take hold, one person must first stop fighting.

— Ann Aguirre

There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

— Herbert V. Prochnow

The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.

— F. Enzio Busche

I'm strictly a movie person. I mean, I watch the HBO documentaries and Netflix.

— Maria Thayer

In fact, Parkinson's has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

— Michael J. Fox

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

— Martin Luther

When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you.

— John Darnielle

All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her…

— Pope Francis

Horrible experiences lead us to wonder whether the person who experiences them might not be something horrible.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson.

— Mercedes McCambridge

The key to good listening isn't technique, it's desire. Until we truly want to understand the other person, we'll never listen well.

— Steve Goodier

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

— H. L. Mencken

I love factoids. It's hard for me to keep those out. It just takes realizing that it's stopping the character. Part of…

— Adam Braver

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear.…

— Christopher Parker

Let's say I hope that I appeal to the more carefree times in a person's life rather than to his reasoning adulthood.…

— John Wayne

The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone…

— Mischa Barton

So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped…

— John Marsden

Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of…

— Joan Didion

The mystical kundalini is very different. It is a much more intense transformative energy which, when used, allows a person to make…

— Frederick Lenz

I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I…

— Alan Lightman

Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability…

— Tom Lehrer

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who…

— Taylor Swift

Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account,…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The thing about drugs is this ... the Libertarians kind of have the right idea on this: Basically, their theory is that…

— Frank Zappa

Love is the overflow of joy in God! It is not duty for duty's sake, or right for right's sake. It is…

— John Piper

I like rock and roll t-shirts, tight jeans, and sneakers or boots. Really just laid back, sort of rock and roll. I'm…

— Orianthi

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the…

— Julian Beck

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all…

— Paulo Coelho

The most destitute person in the world is the one without a smile.

— Zig Ziglar

Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

— Elbert Hubbard

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

— George Leonard

I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.

— Jennifer Egan

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

— Ron Carlson

Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.

— Albert Camus

Focusing on a person's positive attributes is an incredible way to give love.

— Denise Coates

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

— David Foster Wallace