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Person Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
- You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive…
- Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old…
- Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
- I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
- There's such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people speak to that other person and it answers; it's like having a…
- I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
- A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't.…
- Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work…
- There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness…
- The most important thing about a person is always the thing you don't know.
- you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece
- Tall and straight I may appear, but I will always be Ada inside. A crooked little person trying to tell the truth. The power is…
- One of the very first things I figured out about life...is that it's better to be a hopeful person than a cynical, grumpy one, because…
- That was when we smelled the rain. It was so strong it seemed like more than just a smell. When we stretched out our hands…
- The thing is, it's my own fault. I just can't put up with a person that won't go out of his way for me. And…
- When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another…
More Person Quotes
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe