Persons Quotes

17848 quotes by 7544 authors

My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was… — George W. Bush
I think it's important to promote a culture of life. I think a hospitable society is a society where every being counts and every person… — George W. Bush
I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person. — George W. Bush
A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it, and what is one man's comfort and inspiration is another's jest and scorn. — Robert H. Jackson
A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid… — B.F. Skinner
We can't do without dominating others or being served.... The essential thing, in sum, is being able to get angry without the other person being… — Albert Camus
The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike. — Thomas Carlyle
I have encountered a few 'creationists' and because they were usually nice, intelligent people, I have been unable to decide whether they were really mad… — Arthur C. Clarke
Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise. — Philibert Joseph Roux
He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person. — Jane Austen
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
There's no one as transparent as the person who thinks he's devilish deep. — W. Somerset Maugham
We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any… — William Hazlitt
The challenge of education is not to prepare a person for success, but to prepare him for failure. — James Stockdale
It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry. If they want to be successful, they need to learn how to persist and… — Jonah Lehrer
A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel… — Thomas Aquinas
The kindest thing you can do for the people you care about is to become a happy, joyous person — Brian Tracy
Every single person has within an ocean of pure vibrant consciousness. Every single human being can experience that - infinite intelligence, infinite creativity, infinite happiness,… — David Lynch
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. — Walker Percy
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,… — Abraham Maslow

Who Wrote These Persons Quotes

7,544 authors contributed a total of 17,848 Persons Quotes, led by these top contributors: