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Quotes About Person

It went to show that anyone could deliver good news, including a person like Martin Andreeson, even if he wasn't doing so purposefully, and even if he was the king of pukes in most respects.
~ Leif Enger
And the Gryphon added "Come, let's hear some of your adventures." "I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning," said Alice a little timidly; "but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
~ Lewis Carroll
You don't have to disprove someone's claim if you can discredit the person saying it.
~ Libba Bray
She was independent by nature, but even the most independent person sometimes needed comfort
~ Linda Howard
It is nevertheless my considered opinion that an experience often changes in physiognomy according to the capacity a person has for experiencing.
~ Lion Feuchtwanger
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
~ George Orwell
I watch a happy person doing stand-up, and I go, "What the hell is this? This person's happy!" You need internal conflict. You need the guy to be out of step with society. It's a tool for comedy.
~ Zach Galifianakis
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
~ Upton Sinclair
From an egotistical point of view, I'm always interested in roles that push me as a person. I'm interested in humans as animals and as products of society.
~ Tom Cullen
In the final analysis, the hope of every person is simply peace of mind.
~ Dalai Lama
Either you're a person wondering if you have a soul, or you're a soul who knows that being a person isn't real.
~ Deepak Chopra
Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.
~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
The person, the student, the athlete, all are considered equal.
~ Pat Summitt
The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
~ Martin Buber
What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.
~ Albert Einstein
Don't dream of being a good person, be a human being is valuable and gives value to life.
~ Albert Einstein
After all, what is an individual?
~ Aldous Huxley
Destruir su condicionamiento ante la muerte con aquella indecente explosión de dolor, como si la muerte fuese algo horrible, como si la vida de una persona pudiera llegar a importar tanto!
~ Aldous Huxley
It is a sort of sinister warning that there is some person or some thing in the Universe outside oneself: and the realisation of that is as frankly frightening as the other realisation, that one is eternally alone, is horrible.
~ Aleister Crowley
A change of oil…yes, that was what we all needed from time to time, whether we were an engine or a person. And there were other similarities to be explored. Engines had to be handled gently, as did people. Forward gears were better than reverse gears—for people as well as engines.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Mma Makutsi sighed. "You don't understand, Charlie. The word chairman covers both men and women." She paused. "Mind you, Mma Potokwane, many people these days just use the word chair. Perhaps you'd like—" She was not allowed to finish. "Certainly not, Mma," said Mma Potokwane. "I am not a chair—I am a person.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I only know that when I study mathematics, I transport myself to another world, a world of exquisite beauty and truth. And in that world I am the person I like to be.
~ Dora Musielak
I would talk to him over breakfast and try to gauge how he was handling his life. Life is a struggle, I would tell him. Some days are better than others, and every person's life is bittersweet, filled with joy and pain.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
rather nice person, and that I just picked a lemon.
~ Dorothy Gilman