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Persons Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people…
- From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not…
- Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little…
- The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces…
- A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
- There are two kinds of charlatan: the man who is called a charlatan, and the man who really is one. The first is the quack…
- Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the…
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly…
- When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
- No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or…
- Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are…
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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… — 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