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Persons Quotes by George Orwell
- It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.
- I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
- You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
- The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and…
- It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a…
- What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of…
- She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
- Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was…
- The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the…
- I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
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- 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
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — 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