Quotes About Person

Humility and self-effacement ... get a person [little] in this life.

The problem, dear professor, is that you wanted someone who could be made intelligent but still be kept in a cage and displayed when necessary to reap the honors you seek. The hitch is that I'm a person.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

I am a person who always tries not to be easily influenced by position or achievement. I thank God for the fact that I can share more kindness and a good quality of life through the popularity. Not for the popularity itself.

The best love story is when you fall in love with most unexpected person at the most unexpected time.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

I may be wrong, but it seems rare in our age to find a widely praised person whose own mouth is not the source of that praise.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.

When many people think of "new age" they think of crystals and purple decals and ceramic angels in people's windows and a kind of fuzzy thinking - which is abhorrent to a serious person.

The folly at the root of this foolish economy began with the idea that a corporation should be regarded, legally, as a person.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and so, I think, do children. When an important person leaves, you try to fill the emptiness with other people, to glue the broken pieces together.

You may wonder,' I went on, 'how the event of your daughter's death can have been made the means of inflicting injury on another person.' 'No,' said Mrs. Catherick; 'I don't wonder at all. This appears to be your affair. You are interested in my affairs. I am not interested in yours.

The average person found himself forced to choose between a scientific priesthood mumbling unintelligible pessimism, and a theological priesthood mumbling incredible hopes. ?In this situation

It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he at eighteen knew that it would take more than one person to make.

I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to be clean and sweet. It was as if this object of frustration and desire had suddenly acquired the attributes of a person rather than a thing...

Distance tests a horse's strength. Time reveals a person's character.

What looks like a person problem is often a situation problem.

The Principle of Internal Conductivity states that the conductivity of the body and the subtle bodies depends on the psychological attitude of the person receiving the projected energy. Super internal conductivity is called faith.

But when people age, they're not looking for a cure as much as they are for encouragement to continue. Our work here is not about curing. It's about the dignity of each person wheeled from breakfast back to their room.

You're the first," she said. "The first what?" "The first person who's declined the opportunity to see the asteroid that might destroy humanity." I shrugged. "I've seen humanity destroy itself enough times already.

Christ is not only a person, Christ is a place. When you come into Christ, you don't come into a person; you come into a place.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.

The Agency was doubtful, because they had already sent a lot of nurses and nannies and governesses to Mr. and Mrs. Brown's family. 'The person you want,' they said, 'is Nurse Matilda.