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Quotes About Person

There is a tale, as old as the Ancient Ones themselves, that one would arise who has that gift: to sing all the chantments, the high notes and the low, the swift rhythms and the slow. And this person would be more powerful than even the Ancient Ones were, as powerful as the gods themselves.
~ Kate Constable
Stress is not about the situation, my dear, it's about the person. There's some who can handle it and there's some who can't.
~ Kate Jacobs
And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope.
~ Kate Klise
not until this stage, implantation, that medical science says pregnancy begins—because medical science sees pregnancy as the changes a woman's body undergoes to produce a baby, not as a notional, theoretical mini-child that no one knows is there. But the blastocyst is still not a person, if that word means anything at all.
~ Katha Pollitt
The diffrense from a person and an angel is easy. Most of an angel is in the inside and most of a person is on the outside.
~ Fynn
For Anna, 'love' meant the recognition of perfectibility in another. Anna 'saw' a person in every part. Anna 'saw' a 'you'. Now that is something to experience, to be seen as a 'you', clearly and definitely, with no parts hidden. Wonderful and frightening.
~ Fynn
One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything. No, the most annoying thing about it is that he's even started to like Elmo.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
The mazes were for Sadie. To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Sam looked at Sadie, and he thought, This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
As a wedding gift to Ms. Marks, Dr. Daedalus created a topiary hedge maze in the garden by her house. When asked why she had decided to make such a gift, the doctor replied cryptically, "To make a game is to imagine the person playing it.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those one had known a significant time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People tell boring lies about politics, God, and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? —
~ Gabrielle Zevin
This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently. And that mode of transport only worked with those who had known a significant time.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
People tell boring lies about politics, God and love. You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question: What is your favourite book?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But I loved his books, or at least that first one. And I felt that somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must still be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
I was overweight when I was her age, and my mother discussed it exhaustively. And yes, as a result, I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
By the way, I never mention her weight because I don't want her to end up with a complex. I was overweight when I was her age, and my mother discussed it exhaustively. And yes, as a result, I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Man vet allt man behöver veta om en person utifrån svaret på frågan: vilken är den bästa bok som du har läst? (s. 97)
~ Gabrielle Zevin
But I loved those books or at least that first one. And I felt somewhere down deep inside him the person who wrote it must be there. That you couldn't write such beautiful things and have such an ugly heart. But that is the truth. He was a beautiful writer and a terrible person.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
love, he thinks. What a bother. It's completely gotten in the way of his plan to drink himself to death, to drive his business to ruin. The most annoying thing about it is that once a person gives a shit about one thing, he finds he has to start giving a shit about everything.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
It's crazy," she said. "What is?" The connections, she thought. Or the lack of them. The discontinuity. How it was impossible to understand how a person got from point a to point b, even if you were that person and you had been there for every, every step. How there were unseen and mysterious forces beyond yourself.
~ Gabrielle Zevin