Persons Quotes - Page 19

• Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It’s like stealing something valuable they don’t even know they own.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Blind, Stealing, Photograph

  Chuck Palahniuk (2015). “Make Something Up: Stories You Can't Unread”, p.99, Anchor

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• The sand stretched out gray and ghostlike and illuminated, a column of light leading forward. It was like something a dead person would see, a tunnel leading toward heaven.

  Lucy Christopher

  Tunnels, Light, Heaven

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• When a person's last response was Saumensch or Saukerl or Arschloch, you knew you had them beaten.

  Markus Zusak

  Lasts, Response, Beaten

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.318, RH Childrens Books

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• There’s nothing wrong with wanting to be with someone,” I said diplomatically. Unless that person turns your world upside down and makes you lose all self-control.

  Richelle Mead

  Self, World, Down And

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• It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

  John Boyne

  Grandmother, Costumes, Pretending

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• Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

  Patricia Briggs

  Hero, Coyotes, Forget

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “The Mercy Thompson Collection”, p.436, Penguin

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• Maybe hope isn't the most dangerous thing a person can have. Maybe love is.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Love Is, Dangerous, Maybe Love

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

  Ernest Becker

  Betrayal, Real, Depressed Person

  "The Denial of Death".

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• criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

  Dale Carnegie

  Hurt, Pride, Criticism

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• I’m a screwed-up person who no longer knows how to communicate with the people I love. But I meant everything I told you in my letter. If I were your Nikki, I would have come back to you on Christmas Day, but I’m not Nikki. I know. And I’m sorry.

  Matthew Quick

  Sorry, People, Letters

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook: A Novel”, p.285, Macmillan

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• If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

  George Carlin

  Nice, Ifs

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• You’re the only person who really knows me. The only person I feel I truly know myself.” “Knowledge isn’t love,” I contradicted.

  Kiera Cass

  Feels, Know Me, Knows

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• But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or two, somewhere in our travels, who will tell us that we are noble enough, whether it is true or not. We can ask for someone who will say, “You are noble enough,” and remind us of our good qualities when we have forgotten them, or cast them into doubt.

  Daniel Handler

  Two, Doubt, Quality

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• This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

  Daniel Handler

  Doors, Feelings, Bed

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• On his face was an expression of absolute love. Melting, soul-touching, raw, unbridled love, the kind of person dies for, sacrifices and suffers for. It was the kind of love that a person would wait two hundred years to see fulfilled. It was True Love in its purest form.

  Jude Deveraux

  Sacrifice, Expression, Years

  Jude Deveraux (2013). “True Love”, p.354, Ballantine Books

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• Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Fiction, Stories, World

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• To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I’m a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Social, Wilson, Call Me

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.142, Crown/Archetype

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• What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Weed, Hate, Heart

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “The Storyteller”, p.451, Simon and Schuster

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• It's not the easy things that let you get to know a person.

  David Levithan

  Easy, Easy Things, Knows

  David Levithan (2014). “How They Met and Other Stories”, p.45, Egmont UK

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• People are wonderful. I love individuals. I hate groups of people. I hate a group of people with a 'common purpose'. 'Cause pretty soon they have little hats. And armbands. And fight songs. And a list of people they're going to visit at 3am. So, I dislike and despise groups of people but I love individuals. Every person you look at; you can see the universe in their eyes, if you're really looking.

  George Carlin

  Song, Hate, Eye

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• I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget who you are. I forget that you're Jem's. I'd have to be the worst sort of person to think what I'm thinking right now. But I am thinking it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Love You, Thinking

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• If you've been fat, you will always feel and see the world as a fat person; you know how difficult it is... It's the same coming from a working-class background... it never leaves you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Class, World, Fats

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• A respectable person is invariably unrespectable within.

  Rajneesh

  Respectable

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• Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

  David Levithan

  Hopeless Romantic, Way, Possibility

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.186, Egmont UK

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• I forgive you, but only because you said 'please.'" Smartass, I thought. Then I groaned at the instant chorus of "Please!" mixed with cries for release from Vlad's prisoners. No wonder he got so sick of the word. "I'm only merciful to one person a day," he threw over his shoulder. "As the saying goes, today isn't your day and tomorrow doesn't look good, either.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Sick, Forgiving, Looks

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