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Quotes About Person

The Blue Man held out his hand. Fairness, he said, does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
~ Mitch Albom
You might think a person who brings proof of heaven would be embraced. But even in the presence of a miracle, the human heart will say, 'Why not me?
~ Mitch Albom
Fairness," he said, "does not govern life and death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.
~ Mitch Albom
But have you ever heard a story in which the evil person triumphs at the end?" The boy thought for a while before replying. "No," he said, "but before they lose, they harm the good people. That is what I am afraid of.
~ Nadeem Aslam
We allow that violence is done to the body among "primitive" cultures or that it was done by ancient societies, but we have yet to realize that beauty brings out the primitive in every person.
~ Nancy L. Etcoff
He wasn't a person, he was a lord and a wizard, a strange creature on another plane entirely, as far removed as storms and pestilence.
~ Naomi Novik
How exactly have you managed to spend your entire career until now pretending to be a nice person?" (...) "It is not a complex problem to appear nice to people! You identify the most popular targets in each of your classes, learn what they value about themselves, and give them a minimum of three relevant compliments each week. So long as they think you are agreeable, others will follow their lead.
~ Naomi Novik
I remembered Sarkan in his tower, plucking girls out of the valley, and his coldness when I'd first come, as though he couldn't remember how to think and feel like an ordinary person.
~ Naomi Novik
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. How does one choose a single book among so many? Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time, Fernandito realized, always flows at the opposite speed to the needs of the person living through it.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time, Fernandito realized, always flows at the opposite speed to the needs of the person
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
This last year she has been in danger of becoming an eccentric or else one of those persons who does not bother to put a saucer under her cup.
~ Carol Shields
He wondered exactly how lost a person could get. Lost at sea, lost in the woods. Fatally lost.
~ Carol Shields
Did you ever hear of the turd theory? she asked. He shook his head. It goes like this. You think if a certain obnoxious person wasn't in your life, then everything would be just peachy. Then that person is miraculously out of your life, and behold, another turd floats to the top, Jill said.
~ Carolyn Brown
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
~ Carrie Fisher
It's not the magic that has to be strong enough, but the person who's wielding it.
~ Catherine Wilson
Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
~ Chaim Potok
The more we follow the turns of her journey, the more we realize that she is not quite the champion we would normally sing; she is not the heroine who wields the great sword; she is not the bearer of wisdom and light; she does not head the growing column, leading a new march. She is one of the ranks, this perfectly ordinary, exquisitely tiny person in whom we will reside, via both living and dreaming.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
You've reached Fantasia, where the undead live again every night, For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to alive person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you.
~ Charlaine Harris
Jason's favorite person in the entire universe was Jason Stackhouse.
~ Charlaine Harris
You've reached Fangtasia, where the undead live again every night...For bar hours, press one. To make a party reservation, press two. To talk to a live person or a dead vampire, press three. Or, if you were intending to leave a humorous prank message on our answering machine, know this: we will find you. -Pam
~ Charlaine Harris
As to your being worthy, I don't think falling in love has much to do with the worth of the object of love. But I'd dispute your assessment. I think you're a fine woman, and I think you always try to be the best person you can be.
~ Charlaine Harris
If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.
~ David Strathairn
I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
~ Sam Smith