Quotes with person-to-person

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  • Ann Beattie You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Babe Ruth You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Henry David Thoreau You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • David Viscott You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.
    David Viscott
    American writer, teacher (1938 - 1996)
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  • Bill Kurtis You need a very good financial person to keep you honest, and to keep track of income and outgo.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Harper Lee You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Carolyn Murphy You see airbrushed images of me, but I know the person who's walking barefoot, dodging dog poo in the yard.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Benjamin Walker You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
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  • Terence You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Fay Weldon Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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  • Billy Corgan Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Asa Gray Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Adam Smith “If, as has already been observed, I see a stroke aimed, and just ready to fall upon the leg, or arm, of another person, I naturally shrink and draw back my own leg, or my own arm: and when it does fall, I feel it in some measure, and am hurt by it as well as the sufferer.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part II (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A person born with an instinct for poverty.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
    Insecurity of Freedom
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Ambrose Bierce An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Schweitzer An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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