Persons Quotes
17848 quotes by 7807 authors
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Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
— Alexis Arguello
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Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right…
— Aristotle
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The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
— Aristotle
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike…
— Aristotle
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right…
— Aristotle
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My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know.
— J. J. Abrams
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I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
— Richard Bach
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
— Karen Armstrong
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
— Lance Armstrong
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As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it.
— Darren Aronofsky
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and…
— Darren Aronofsky
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No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important.
— Mary Kay Ash
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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you…
— Mary Kay Ash
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Criticize the act, not the person.
— Mary Kay Ash
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
— Arthur Ashe
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Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but…
— Kate Atkinson
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To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.
— Rowan Atkinson
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I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done…
— Richard Attenborough
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I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author…
— Margaret Atwood
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