Quotes About Person

When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support... He is the right person for the job.

At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

I am a pretty emotional person. Any act of kindness or unkindness moves me. When I see a romantic couple sitting by the beach, it moves me. I don't break down or crack under pressure, but I am just sensitive.

Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

It's inspiring, I think, for women out there to see I'm a regular person. I am the every woman who's struggled with my weight.

Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable, ' whereas to be 'venerable, ' a woman should lso be a mother.

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother?

It's only a matter of time before it all starts to fall apart, before things start to fall off. Short legs, long body. The kind of person who in the Middle Ages would come up over the hill on his horse, and they'd say, 'Get Wogan,' and I'd be there with my shield, the first to die.

I don't want to play these games of statistics any more; I have done that. I don't want to be imprisoned by that, or by the morality that is expected of activists. I have never been that pristine person, that role model.

Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'

I've made movies all over the world but I really like staying home. I can cook my meals, be a normal person.

I'm not working at the Chevron, although I'd probably be the best person to work the night shift. Look at me. Nobody would try to steal a Snickers on my watch.

gives the impression of intelligence, choosing and enunciating each word carefully, but she also seems oddly naive, like a person who has sat down and worked out the world's problems all on her own.

Rebellion must be managed with many swords; treason to his prince's person may be with one knife.

There are mysteries in science, and mysteries in art, but the greatest mystery has always been another person's deepest motivation.

A nation as a society forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society

Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected, - these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Oskar showed that virtue emerged where it would, and the sort of churchy observance bishops called for was not a guarantee of genuine humanity in a person.