Persons Quotes - Page 35

• Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

  Tacitus

  Blood, Guilt, Politics

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• Love should be pure. If you have love for someone you won't see bad points of the other person, never.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

  Mindy Kaling

  Love, Relationship, Laughing

  Twitter post from Nov 14, 2013

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• One of the hardest lessons we have to learn in this life, and one that many persons never learn, is to see the divine, the celestial, the pure, in the common, the near at hand-to see that heaven lies about us here in this world.

  John Burroughs

  Life, Nature, Lying

  John Burroughs (1924). “Complete writings of John Burroughs”

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• Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious.

  William James

  Science, Thinking, Hands

  1907 Pragmatism.

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• I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

  Olivia Wilde

  Single, Meaningful, Thinking

  "Olivia Wilde's New Fairy Tale". Interview With Leslie Bennetts, www.marieclaire.com. July 13, 2011.

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• We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

  Jane Addams

  Class, People, Democracy

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• A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Travel, Struggle

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• Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

  Seneca the Younger

  Travel, No Friends, Acquaintance

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter II)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

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• It's like Forrest Gump said, 'Life is like a box of chocolates.' Your career is like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get. But everything you get is going to teach you something along the way and make you the person you are today. That's the exciting part - it's an adventure in itself.

  Nick Carter

  Work, Adventure, Said Life

  "Backstreet boys". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 4, 2007.

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• Rejection never feels good, but it certainly hurts less when we are not needing something from the person who is rejecting us.

  Susan Jeffers

  Broken Heart, Breakup, Hurt

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• The fixed person for the fixed duties who in older societies was such a godsend, in future will be a public danger.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Business, Danger, Fixed

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents.

  John Wanamaker

  Business, Ideas, Succeed

  John Wanamaker (1923). “Maxims of Life and Business”

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• My son, Rob....said the only time he ever wraps a gift is, quote, "if it's such a poor gift that I don't want to be there when the person opens it."

  Dave Barry

  Christmas, Son, Want

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• The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the Liturgy," the Pope clarified. "The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas.

  Pope John Paul II

  Christmas, Spiritual, Heart

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• I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people.

  Katherine Dunham

  Dance, People, Dancing

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• A person who can connect with their partner, another human being who can connect with their soul − it's not just learning steps, it's about expressing something. I've found in dancing all my life that I can release something as a dancer that I can't in any other way.

  Patrick Swayze

  Dance, Dancing, Soul

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• I'm trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that's not easy to do. Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do. The best way for me to find myself as a person is to prove to myself that I am an actress.

  Marilyn Monroe

  People, Trying, Acting

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• I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

  Anna Paquin

  Thinking, Trying, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Worry, Healthy, Soul

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• We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Yoga, Self, Atman

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• Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Organization, Vision

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• To find someone who will love you for no reason, and to shower that person with reasons, that is the ultimate happiness.

  Robert Breault

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• cross that person off your invitation list.

  John Eliot

  Change, Life Changing, Lists

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

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• A poor surgeon hurts one person at a time. A poor teacher hurts 130.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Teacher, Hurt

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