Person Quotes - page 6

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering. View quote
Freeman Dyson
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong. View quote
Lucian Freud
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself. View quote
Edward Gibbon
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. View quote
Bruce Lee
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. View quote
Alexander Pope
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. View quote
Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. View quote
Edmund Burke
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. View quote
W. H. Auden
An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind. (John Ruskin)
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. View quote
Zelda Fitzgerald
Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I believe that every person is born with talent. View quote
Maya Angelou
I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt. View quote
Maya Angelou
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person. View quote
Gerard Way
You just can't beat the person who never gives up. View quote
Babe Ruth
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. View quote
Alice Walker
One can't be kind to one person and cruel to another. View quote
Morarji Desai
No sane person should believe that something is 'subjective' merely because it cannot be settled beyond controversy. (Hilary Putnam)
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. View quote
Willa Cather
Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person. View quote
Marilyn vos Savant
The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank. View quote
Robert Fogel
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? View quote
Richard Bach