Persons Quotes - Page 28

• You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.

  Haruki Murakami

  Distance, Heart, Talking

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• She believed that owning a lots of things made you a better person. She didn't know - possibly didn't want to know - that happiness comes from the inside.

  Dorothy Koomson

  Want, Better Person, Made

  Dorothy Koomson (2007). “Marshmallows for breakfast”

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• Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

  Epicurus

  Littles, Sufficiency, Sufficient

  Epicurus (1963). “The philosophy of Epicurus: letters, doctrines, and parallel passages from Lucretius”

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• Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

  Phil Foglio

  Thinking, Hands, Iron

  Phil Foglio, Kaja Foglio (2012). “Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess: A Girl Genius Novel”, p.218, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It's not like I'm such a shiny happy person either, you know? I'm a wreck too, I'm just... still alive.

  Isaac Marion

  Alive, Wrecks, Happy Person

  Isaac Marion (2012). “Warm Bodies: A Novel”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Lazy, Annoying, Lied

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2010). “Crescendo”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Fashion, Style, Triumph

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• When I was little, I used to go to the local ice-skating rink. In my mind, I always felt like I could twirl and jump, but when I got out onto the ice, I could barely keep my blades straight. When I got older, that's how it was with people: In my mind, I am bold and forthright, but what comes out always seems to be so meek and polite. Even with Evan, my boyfriend for junior and most of senior year, I never quite managed to be that skating, twirling, leaping person I suspected I could be. But today, apparently, I can skate.

  Gayle Forman

  Senior, Years, Ice

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• A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Needs, Way

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Passing Away, Thieves, Doe

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• You're the only person I've ever met who can stand a bookstore as long as I can.

  Junot Diaz

  Long, Bookstores, Mets

  Junot Diaz (2012). “This Is How You Lose Her”, p.51, Faber & Faber

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• Both men and women today see marriage not as a way of creating character and community but as a way to reach personal life goals. They are looking for a marriage partner who will 'fulfill their emotional, sexual, and spiritual desires.' And that creates an extreme idealism that in turn leads to a deep pessimism that you will ever find the right person to marry.

  Timothy Keller

  Spiritual, Character, Men

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.23, Penguin

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• The most dangerous kind of person... is one who is afraid of his own shadow.

  Philip K. Dick

  Fear, Shadow, Kind

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Real, Secret, Important

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• You cannot thrash the person who makes you coffee. It's a rule somewhere.

  Kim Harrison

  Coffee

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• If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.

  Herta Muller

  Country, Would Be, Able

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• You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?

  Ryohgo Narita

  Running, Lonely, Memories

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• He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in power and then fall under their spell.

  Hugh Howey

  Fall, Men, People

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• You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

  Scott Spencer

  Care, Way, Said

  Scott Spencer (2010). “Endless Love”, p.143, Open Road Media

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• At Apple, people are putting in 18-hour days. We attract a different type of person—a person who doesn’t want to wait five or ten years to have someone take a giant risk on him or her. Someone who really wants to get in a little over his head and make a little dent in the universe. We are aware that we are doing something significant. We’re here at the beginning of it and we’re able to shape how it goes. Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

  Steve Jobs

  Apples, Years, People

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• The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious person more intensely conscious. You can use a challenge to awaken you, or you can allow it to pull you into even deeper sleep. The dream of ordinary unconsciousness then turns into a nightmare.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dream, Sleep, Challenges

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.74, New World Library

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• Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

  Nancy Garden

  Soulmate, Two, Skins

  Nancy Garden (2017). “Annie on My Mind”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Religious, Determination, Thinking

  Gretchen Rubin (2015). “The Happiness Project (Revised Edition): Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun”, p.9, HarperCollins

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• The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it.

  John Green

  Vegas, Dragons, Want

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• I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Thinking, Voice

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