Person Quotes

I'm always active in trying to educate people when it comes to eating animal products, testing on animals, and the health benefits of being vegan, although I'm probably not the best person to be talking about the latter at the moment.

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

A person cannot love a plant after he has pruned it, then he has either done a poor job or is devoid of emotion.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

A vegetarian is a person who won't eat anything that can have children.

It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

Justin Timberlake is everything, and what more could you want in a person? He's funny. He's cute. He's great. He just understands. I get him and he gets me, and that's cool.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.

He is very dry but also very funny... I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh.

No, no, I was only funny on stage, really. I, I, think I was funny as a person toward my classmates when I was very young. You know, when I was a child, up to about the age of 12.