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Persons Quotes by Wystan Hugh Auden
- A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on…
- No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.
- Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible…
- Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a…
- The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal…
- The true men of action in our time those who transform the world are not the politicians and statesmen but the scientists. Unfortunately poetry cannot…
- A person incapable of imaging another world than given to him by his senses would be subhuman, and a person who identifies his imaginary world…
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- 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