Person Quotes

When you're playing a romantic version of a real person, you're playing a version of the truth.

~ Andrea Riseborough

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

~ Lewis B. Smedes

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I had never really dated. I've always been a relationship kind of person.

~ Bruce Willis

The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.

~ Natalia Kills

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

~ Douglas Coupland

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

~ Mark Twain

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be essential to success.

~ K. Flay

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

~ Umberto Eco

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.

~ Cecil B. Demille

No poetry that I'm aware of, however bad or glorious, has ever left somebody a worse person than they were before they read it.

~ Felix Dennis

I learned to impersonate the kind of person that talks about poetry. It comes from teaching, I think.

~ Robert Morgan

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

~ Thomas Babington Macaulay

I get angry at a principle, not a person.

~ Norman Schwarzkopf

I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

~ Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.

~ Calvin Harris

I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.

~ Natalie Martinez

The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

~ James Whitcomb Riley

The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or unfitness for office may be fairly canvassed by any person.

~ Charles Babbage

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

~ Confucius

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

~ Helen Rowland

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

~ Karl Marx

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

~ Mark Twain

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

~ Jean De La Bruyère

I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is considered the appropriate answer. Neither do I want to be a protestor. I just want to seek out what lies underneath the veils of politeness and programming that I've been given as a person in this society.

~ Damien Rice

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

~ John Stuart Mill

The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.

~ Lysander Spooner

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

~ Vince Vaughn

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

~ Rosa Parks

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.

~ Roald Dahl

My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.

~ Cindy Sherman

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

~ Jean De La Fontaine