Person Quotes

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

I think that every single person should play sports.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

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

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

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

A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

When you come in to court as a plaintiff or as a defendant, it is terribly important that you look up at the bench and feel that that person represents you and will understand you, that that person is reflective of our community and of our society.

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

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

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.

I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.

Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

The writer is the person who stands outside society, independent of affiliation and independent of influence.

But, on the other hand, I get bored with racism too and recognize that there are still many things to be said about a Black person and a White person loving each other in a racist society.

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of.

There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.

A person that much interested in science is going to neglect his social life somewhat, but not completely, because that isn't healthy either. So one has to work it out according to one's own inclinations, how one wants to proportion these things.

There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.