Persons Quotes - Page 10

• I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.

  Julia Quinn

  Giving, World, Lays

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with some semblance of equality, each liberal-minded woman, each gay person, and indeed almost every person could be their own President. In a world of equals, what real service does a ruler provide?

  Isaac Asimov

  Country, Kings, Real

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• I used to listen to it all the time when I was little and thinking about grown-up things. I would go to my bedroom window and stare at my reflection in the glass and the trees behind it and just listen to the song for hours. I decided then that when I met someone I thought was as beautiful as the song, I should give it to that person. And I didn’t mean beautiful on the outside. I meant beautiful in all ways.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Beautiful, Song, Mean

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet. "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesome, so he must be..." He struggled for the right words. It had probably been a long time since he'd talked about anything other than himself. "He must be tricking us." Apparently Narcissus wasn't completely stupid.

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Feet, Long

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• I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.

  Orson Welles

  Joy, Kind, Happy Person

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• It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it does not; the domestic setting keeps us tethered to the person we are in ordinary life, who may not be who we essentially are.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Self, Encounters

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• There's always a price you pay when you lie. Once you introduce a lie into a relationship, even for the best of intentions, it is always there. Whenever you’re with that person again, that lie is in the room too. It sits on your shoulder. Good lie or bad lie, it's in the room with you forever now. It's your constant companion.

  Harlan Coben

  Lying, Forever, Pay

  Harlan Coben (2012). “Seconds Away (Book Two): A Mickey Bolitar Novel”, p.146, Penguin

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• You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Thinking, Dragons

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.247, Macmillan

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• Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.

  Milan Kundera

  Goodbye, Farewell, Thinking

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• And when someone grows up knowing so little of what real love feels like, whether from family, or friends, or the love of a companion, that person starts to believe that they weren’t meant to be loved, that good things will never happen to them. They start to believe that whenever something good does happen, it’s inevitable that something bad will come along to replace it.

  J.A. Redmerski

  Growing Up, Real, Believe

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• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Average, People, Effort

  Ryszard Kapuscinski (2009). “Travels with Herodotus”, p.267, Vintage

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• I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

  Robin Sloan

  Ideas, Darkness, Google

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.132, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Mom's always telling me to smile and hoping I'll turn into a smiley person, which, to be honest, is kind of annoying.

  Rebecca Stead

  Mom, Honest, Kind

  Rebecca Stead (2012). “Liar & Spy”, p.4, Wendy Lamb Books

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• Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

  Jonathan Stroud

  World, Violence, Fit

  Jonathan Stroud (2010). “The Ring of Solomon”, p.239, Random House

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• He looked gravely at the king. "It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself. But no matter, Your Majesty. You are revealed at last." The king looked down at his nakedness and back at the captain. "Was that a joke?" he asked.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Loyalty, Kings, Giving

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• For the person with creative potential there is no wholeness except in using it.

  Robert K. Greenleaf

  Creative, Wholeness

  Robert K. Greenleaf, Hamilton Beazley, Julie Beggs (2003). “The Servant-leader Within: A Transformative Path”, p.41, Paulist Press

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• Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

  Joe Queenan

  Book, Inquiring, Psychological

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• You know that I don't believe that anyone has ever taught anything to anyone. I question that efficacy of teaching. The only thing that I know is that anyone who wants to learn will learn. And maybe a teacher is a facilitator, a person who puts things down and shows people how exciting and wonderful it is and asks them to eat.

  Carl Rogers

  Education, Teacher, Believe

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• But what if it were you? What if you were stuffed in a human body and let loose on this planet only to find yourself lost among your own kind? What if you were such a good person that you tried to save the life that you'd taken that you almost died trying to get her back to her family? What if you then found yourself surrounded by violent aliens who hated you and tried to hurt you and tried to murder you over and over again? What if you just kept doing whatever you could to save and heal people despite that? Wouldn't you deserve a life too? Wouldn't you have earned that much?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Hurt, Taken, People

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• One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

  Thomas Harris

  Quality, Sides, Said

  Thomas Harris (1999). “Hannibal”

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• Looking for Mr. Right leads to desperation, because there is no Mr. Right. There is no Mr. Right, because there is no Mr. Wrong. There is whoever is in front of us and the perfect lessons to be learned from that person.

  Marianne Williamson

  Lessons To Be Learned, Mr Right, Perfect

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Patch is the last person you want to antagoonize. He doesn't hold grudges because the people who cross him tend to disappear quickly.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  People, Want, Lasts

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• She often had to remind herself that she couldn't do everything alone. She wasn't always the best person for the job. Sometimes she got tunnel vision and forgot about what other people needed.

  Rick Riordan

  Jobs, Tunnels, People

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• love comes from the heart not from the mind. you will love and be loved. don't force things good things take time.one good reason for people to love you is for who you are not who someone else is. your beautiful and wonderful don't change that just because one person dislikes like you for who you are

  Cathy Cassidy

  Beautiful, Love You, Heart

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• You'll make mistakes and struggle like everyone, but when you are with the right person, you'll almost perfect joy, like you are the luckiest person who ever lived. And that means you'll love and be loved...and in the end, nothing else really matters.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Mistake, Struggle, Mean

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