Persons Quotes · Page 74

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

I think that the vice president is a person reflecting a half-glass-full mentality.

— George W. Bush

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

— Seneca the Younger

I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?

— Brian May

I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.

— George Carlin

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.

— Nelson Mandela

In a funny way, I like the past, I'm a very nostalgic person.

— Elle Fanning

To be a great leader, first become a great person.

— Robin Sharma

That's part of that thing of transcending languages. Every person will have their own language.

— Jerry Garcia

My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

— PSY

Today's beauty ideal, strictly enforced by the media, is a person with the same level of body fat as a paper clip.

— Dave Barry

I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

— Sally Schneider

I learned how to be a woman and a good person just by watching and observing my mother.

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to…

— Arthur Goldberg

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

— David Arquette

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

— Russell Brand

For a human being, to possess a consciously experienced first-person perspective means to have acquired a very specific functional profile and distinctive…

— Thomas Metzinger

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself…

— Whitney Houston

I'm very sceptical about the prospects for 'big' environmental causes - 'saving the planet', halving the world's population, ending the exploitation of…

— David E. Cooper

One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and…

— Teresa of Avila

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who…

— Frank Herbert

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we…

— Terry Goodkind

A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies…

— Anonymous

I look at the effect that an individual's fame has on their family, for example, and the limitations that places upon your…

— J. K. Rowling

Success, instead of giving freedom of choice, becomes a way of life. There's no country I've been to where people, when you…

— Arthur Miller

We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their…

— Joyce Meyer

It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because…

— Barack Obama

The experience I learned was that … if you leave decision to the public, you can be killed… I felt really violated:…

— Marina Abramovic

As far back as she could remember, a phantom life had mocked her with its impenetrable “something else,” but now it was…

— Laini Taylor

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in…

— Tim Ferriss

What I bring to the interview is respect. The person recognizes that you respect them because you're listening. Because you're listening, they…

— Studs Terkel

You could sit on top of a mountain praying for hours a day and still not make it if you had no…

— Elizabeth Clare Prophet

Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.

— Jenna Fischer

I'm the type of person who always has to be making something.

— Brian Hodge

I'm by nature kind of a glum person, but I'm not a sad pathetic

— Billy Corgan

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

— Lee R. Raymond

A person of any mental quality has ideas of his own. This is common sense.

— Franz Liszt

What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

— Annie Dillard

Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.

— Jake Bugg

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly.

— Dusty Springfield