Persons Quotes · Page 214

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly…

— Catharine Beecher

I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.

— Carly Fiorina

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

— Burt Reynolds

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

— Anonymous

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving…

— Chen Guangcheng

Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.

— Anne Bosworth Greene

A faithless woman, if known to be such by the person concerned, is but faithless ; if she is believed faithful, she…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

— Leo Tolstoy

There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that?…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

I have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of…

— Haruki Murakami

I have to adjust. I have to be nice to all the people. Because of the people I have become a famous…

— Manny Pacquiao

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the…

— Chris Christie

The most important person on this earth is you. What are you doing to help the most important person in this world:…

— Jack LaLanne

A person's license to create is irrevocable, and it opens to every corner of daily life. But it is always hard to…

— Shaun McNiff

I keep moving through time and time keeps moving through me. And through that process, life takes shape. The question is what…

— Questlove

I discharge every person under punishment or prosecution under the Sedition Law, because I considered, and now consider, that law to be…

— Thomas Jefferson

What Jesus taught was a radical message of welcome and inclusion and love. I feel certain God loves me just the way…

— Vicky Beeching

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated –…

— Alexander Lowen

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the…

— Jane Hamilton

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is…

— John Dewey

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions,…

— Jonathan Tropper

Actors tend to get in their own way, a lot. A lot of times you will do things that will screw up…

— George Clooney

“ Perfect? How do you define a word without concrete meaning? To each his own, the saying goes, so why push to…

— Ellen Hopkins

Throughout my life, I have always supported the human being in his humanism and I have supported the oppressed. I think it…

— Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I…

— Eduardo Saverin

Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every…

— Dan Millman

A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.

— Jeanne DuPrau

The "times," "the age" what is that, but a few profound persons and a few active persons who epitomize the times?

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it…

— Mark Twain

Hangover cure: Rigorous sex, hydration, hot bath, then "go up for half an hour in an open aeroplane. (needless to say, with…

— Kingsley Amis

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…

— Donna Tartt

The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

— Zayn Malik

The reason I say I'm a horrible person is I don't want myself to be presented as somebody who's a great Catholic.

— Jim Gaffigan

I'm more than a songwriter. I'm a creative person. Some people you just always see. I won't allow you to see me…

— Ester Dean

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

— Fannie Flagg

I've known for years that resentments don't hurt the person we resent, but they do hurt us.

— Anne Lamott

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to…

— George Michael

A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine.

— Grace Kelly

Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through…

— Graeme Base

I'm a person who gets better with practice. Getting older is awesome - because you get more practice.

— Zooey Deschanel