Persons Quotes - Page 5

• Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Naked, Shirts

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• It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Country, Tea, Want

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Role Models

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.

  Wil Wheaton

  Secret Identity, Should Have, Evil

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• An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Challenges, Sense Of Humor

  Christopher Hitchens (2001). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

  Isabel Allende

  Men, Gestures, Realizing

  Isabel Allende (2016). “The Stories of Eva Luna”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I hate Erma," I told Mom... "You have to show compassion for her..." She added that you should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. "Everyone has something good about them," she said. "You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that." "Oh yeah?" I said. "How about Hitler? What was his redeeming quality?" "Hitler loved dogs," Mom said without hesitation.

  Jeannette Walls

  Mom, Dog, Hate

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• At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to me encouragingly, 'Come on, Stephen - you're not singing. Have a go!' 'Believe me, Paul, you don't want me to,' I said. Besides, I was having a much better time listening to him. 'No. Go on!' So I joined in the chorus. 'You're right,' Paul McCartney conceded. 'You can't sing.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Years, Funeral

  Stephen Fry (2012). “The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography”, p.220, The Overlook Press

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• I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that. I sometimes think you're the only person who really knows me. I only feel normal when I'm with you.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Thinking, Looks, Normal

  Anthony Horowitz (2007). “Ark Angel”, p.75, Penguin

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• When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in my mind. I don’t want this person to get their short story back with harsh red pen marks all over it. Purple is much friendlier.

  Susane Colasanti

  Teacher, Purple, Forever

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.58, Penguin

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• Contribute to the world. Help people. Help one person. Help someone cross the street today. Help someone with directions unless you have a terrible sense of direction. Help someone who is trying to help you. Just help. Make an impact. Show someone you care. Say yes instead of no. Say something nice. Smile. Make eye contact. Hug. Kiss. Get naked.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Smile, Nice, Eye

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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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• Listen - God only exists in people's minds. Especially in Japan, God's always been kind of a flexible concept. Look at what happened after the war. Douglas MacArthur ordered the divine emperor to quit being God, and he did, making a speech saying he was just an ordinary person. So after 1946 he wasn't God anymore. That's what Japanese gods are like--they can be tweaked and adjusted. Some American comping on a cheap pipe gives the order and presto change-o--God's no longer God. A very postmodern kind of thing. If you think God's there, He is. If you don't, He isn't.

  Haruki Murakami

  War, Thinking, Japan

  "Kafka On The Shore". Book by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. 2002.

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• I was confident that I was a special person. But time slowly chips away at life. People don't just die when their time comes. They gradually die away, from the inside. And finally the day comes when you have to settle accounts. Nobody can escape it. People have to pay the price for what they've received. I have only just learned that truth.

  Haruki Murakami

  Pay The Price, People, Special

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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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• 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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• You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

  John Green

  Real, Character, Boys

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.197, Bloomsbury Publishing

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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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• Loving another person is a wonderful thing, and if that love is sincere, no one ends up tossed into a labyrinth. You have to have more faith in yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Love Is, Labyrinth, Wonderful

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• That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

  Jodi Picoult

  Love Is, Special, Draws

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.90, 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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• 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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