Persons Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• I am a naturally curious person. -Tris

  Veronica Roth

  Curious, Tris

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• You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try

  Sarah Dessen

  Fake, Trying, Matter

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.14, Penguin

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• I had a lot of things I wanted to do... I want to be a teacher...I also want to be an astronaut...and also make my own cake shop...I want to go to the sweets bakery and say "I want one of everything", ohhhh I wish I could live life five times over...Then I'd be born in five different places, and I'd stuff myself with different food from around the world...I'd live five different lives with five different occupations...and then, for those five times...I'd fall in love with the same person.

  Tite Kubo

  Teacher, Sweet, Falling In Love

  "Bleach". Manga by Tite Kubo, 2001 - 2016.

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• Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even physical health. Others seem aloof or self-contained, but their inner landscapes are rich and full of drama. So the next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet.

  Susan Cain

  Drama, Reality, Self

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.266, Broadway Books

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• I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void. Once I lose all ability to communicate with the world outside myself, nothing will be left but what I remember. My memories will be like a sandbar, cut off from the shore by the incoming tide. In time they will become submerged, inaccessible to me. The prospect terrified me. For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

  Tan Twan Eng

  Stars, Memories, Cutting

  Tan Twan Eng (2013). “The Garden of Evening Mists”, p.26, Canongate Books

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• You can be very religious and invoke the name of God and be able to quote lots of verses and be well versed in complicated theological systems and yet not be a person who sees. It’s one thing to sing about God and recite quotes about God and invoke God’s name; it’s another be aware of the presence in every taste, touch, sound, and embrace. With Jesus, what we see again and again is that it’s never just a person, or just a meal, or just an event, because there’s always more going on just below the surface.

  Rob Bell

  Religious, Jesus, Names

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• Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Break Up, Beautiful, Breakup

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• I've always considered myself a good person. I've never done anything to purposely hurt anyone. I was in shock that this happened to me, and because it did, I turned into this vengeful person. I've never truly hated anyone, but I was glad when I saw him lying there on the floor.

  Maya Banks

  Hurt, Lying, Done

  Maya Banks (2011). “Hidden Away”, p.151, Penguin

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• He's one kind of person, you're another. When life is going along normally, you're sort of the same. But when life turns strange and scary, when there's a crisis, suddenly you're completely different people.

  Michael Grant

  People, Scary, Different

  Michael Grant (2014). “Gone Series Complete Collection: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, Light”, p.109, Harper Collins

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• She's the nicest person I know." Zila chewed on her lower lip. "Well, the second nicest. Avry's the first.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Firsts, Lips, Wells

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Scent of Magic”, p.58, Harlequin

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• ...if you can think of meetings you've attended, you can probably recall a time - plenty of times - when the opinion of the most dynamic or talkative person prevailed to the detriment of all.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Opinion, Meetings

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  War, Callous, Universe

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.186, Macmillan

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• Fear of being a flawed person lay at the root of my trance, and I had sacrificed many moments over the years in trying to prove my worth. Like the tiger Mohini, I inhabited a self-made prison that stopped me from living fully.

  Tara Brach

  Self, Years, Roots

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• Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Hurt, Feel Better, Forgiving

  Chetan Bhagat (2009). “2 States: The Story of My Marriage”, p.198, Sandesh S

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• Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside. It's furrow, pinch, and judgement that make us look older - our mothers were right. They said that if you made certain faces, they would stick, and they do. But our mothers forgot that faces of kindness and integrity stick as well.

  Anne Lamott

  Mother, Laughter, Kindness

  "Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith". Book by Anne Lamott, 2007.

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• She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to be a certain kind of person. He still likes that about her. Her smartness, the fact that she did not inherit that look or that beauty, but it was something searched for and that it will always reflect a present stage of her character.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Queens, Character, Desire

  Michael Ondaatje (1996). “The English Patient: A Novel”, Random House Inglaterra

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• I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

  John Scalzi

  Real, Fate, Care

  John Scalzi (2012). “Redshirts: A Novel with Three Codas”, p.167, Macmillan

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• A person without curiosity may as well be dead.

  Judy Blume

  Curiosity, May, Wells

  Judy Blume (2009). “Summer Sisters: A Novel”, p.30, Delta

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• It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Behind You, Claims

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Tricks, Novel

  "Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays". Book by Zadie Smith, 2009.

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• wait," I said. "so you're saying that you proposed to me because I'm a mess and I'm a person and because we need each other, while Rebecca was —— something else? I get it, I follow you, but I'm also thinking, is the bullshit getting a little deep in here?" "Yes, it is. You've caught me. And so fine, I will come clean, and I will tell you the absolutely true and naked reason why I want to marry you and only you, and not Rebecca." "Why?" "Because when I'm with you, I'm the pretty one.

  Paul Rudnick

  Thinking, Bullshit, Waiting

  Paul Rudnick (2013). “Gorgeous”, p.273, Scholastic Inc.

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• it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hate, Done, Forget

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• What are you looking at?” she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.

  Pete Wentz

  Mother, Children, Wife

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

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