Persons Quotes - Page 13

• I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Upset, Trying

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• Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Epic, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• There’s nothing more embarrassing than a person who tries to guess what the great American public would like, makes a compromise for the first time, and falls flat on his face… I would rather be a failure on my own terms than a success on someone else’s. That’s a difficult statement to live up to, but then I’ve always believed that the way you affect your audience is more important than how many of them are there.

  Tom Waits

  Fall, Important, Trying

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• That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, Long, Want

  Mark Twain (2015). “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, p.226, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

  Thomas Bernhard

  Together, One You Love

  Thomas Bernhard (2010). “Gargoyles: A Novel”, p.19, Vintage

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• “Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Believe, Responsibility, People

  "Save Me the Waltz: A Novel".

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• Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

  Donald A. Norman

  Communication, Mean, Deep Understanding

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• Petra turned to her. "Everybody lies about who they are. Name one person here who isn't doing that and I will drop out right now!" Shanti felt that snake of truth coil around her legs, threatening to squeeze. "I didn't mean..." "No one ever does." Petra said, shoving the baton back at Shanti.

  Libba Bray

  Lying, Mean, Snakes

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.129, Scholastic Inc.

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• In marriage you are not sacrificing yourself to the other person. You are sacrificing yourself to the relationship.

  Joseph Campbell

  Sacrifice, Sacrificing Yourself

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• ... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

  Deb Caletti

  Looks, Ugly, Action

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• If you really love someone, even if you can't see where you'll be or what you'll be doing twenty years from now, you'd still want that person to be there.

  Meg Cabot

  Years, Twenties, Want

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• [A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Names, Diagnosis

  Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

  Dorothy Rowe

  Depression, Believe, Mean

  Dorothy Rowe (2003). “Depression: The Way Out of Your Prison”, p.197, Psychology Press

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• Because what if I got to know you and you turned out to be just like they said? What if you weren’t the person I hoped you were? That, more than anything, would have hurt the most.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, What If, Said

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Naked, Shirts

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• You couldn't relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole--like the world, or the person you loved.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Life, Acceptance

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• It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life. ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

  Emily Giffin

  Kindness, Empathy, Missing

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• All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Pain, Crazy, Cells

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• In the ensuing silence, I have time to contemplate the word cute— how dismissive it is, how it’s the equivalent of calling someone little, how it makes a person into a baby, how the word is a neon sign burning through the dark reading, “Feel Bad About Yourself.

  John Green

  Cute, Baby, Reading

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.55, Penguin

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• To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

  Louise Penny

  Offending, Voice, People

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• How is it that I could run into a gunfight against overwhelming odds and put myself between bullets and civilians, but I couldn't scrape together enough courage to speak to the one person who mattered the most to me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Odds, Together

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Gunmetal Magic: A Novel in the World of Kate Daniels”, p.32, Penguin

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• Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

  Dave Eggers

  Thinking, Two, Long

  Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.184, McSweeney's

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Coincidence

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Rose: But now you know there was a man named Jack Dawson and that he saved me... in every way that a person can be saved

  James Cameron

  Men, Rose, Way

  "Titanic". www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• I receive a lot of letters like yours. Most go on in length, describing all sorts of maddening situations and communications in bewildered detail, but in each there is the same question at its core: Can I convince the person about whom I am crazy to be crazy about me? The short answer is no. The long answer is no.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Crazy, Communication, Long

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.135, Atlantic Books Ltd

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