Quotes with person

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1119.

  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Hoadly Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written or spoken laws, it is He who is truly the Law Giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote or spoke them.
    Sermon before the King of England, 31 March 1717
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  • Seneca Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • August Strindberg Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Mark Twain Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Buffalo Bill Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Lucian Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend.
    Lucian
     
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  • Diogenes of Sinope Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Greek philosopher (412 - 323)
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  • Busta Rhymes With every song I have a person in mind who, in a perfect world, would perform with me. Usually I end up not getting that person, and I'm forced to settle for someone else.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Caprice Bourret With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard With the truth, you need to get rid of it as soon as possible and pass it on to someone else. As with illness, this is the only way to be cured of it. The person who keeps truth in his hands has lost.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Henry Fielding Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Bill Goldberg Would it be an honor to be bestowed Hall of Fame credentials? Yeah. Does it define me as a person? No.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed Would you want to do business with a person who was 99% honest?
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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  • Carol Shields Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Agnes Smedley Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • James Newman You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you felling otherwise.
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