Quotes on Persons

It's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along. And that, I think, might be one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don't ask for raises have. Because that's good karma. It'll come back. Because somebody's going to know: 'That's the kind of person that I want to trust. That's the kind of person that I want to really give more responsibility to.'

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Love is understood, in a historical way, as one of the great human vocations - but its counterspell has always been infidelity. This terrible, terrible betrayal that can tear apart not only another person, not only oneself, but whole families.

The past is no more and the future is not yet. The only right person is one who lives moment to moment, whose arrow is directed to the moment, who is always here and now; wherever he is, his whole consciousness, his whole being, is involved in the reality of here and in the reality of now.

MISCREANT, n. A person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's noblest contribution to the development of our language.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

RUSSIAN, n. A person with a Caucasian body and a Mongolian soul. A Tartar Emetic.

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

Turning a human being into a thing is almost always the first step towards justifying violence against that person.

The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you’re doing.

Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it.

It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.