Person Quotes

Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

The characters you refer to as predatory and unsavory are useful. They're the ones who make a novel into a thriller. They're active, and most of the common virtues, the signs of a good person, are not.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

My stand-up act? I combine the fact that the world is a violent place with the fact that each person is responsible for the situation they are in.

I'm not a violent person and I don't hit people.

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

I'm not a violent person.

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.

From pacifist to terrorist, each person condemns violence - and then adds one cherished case in which it may be justified.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

I'm a strong person, but I'd never resort to violence.

But what I believe is that if a person's individual rights or right to be a part of our economic system is violated under statute, we aggressively go after it. But we don't issue mandates to businesses that you've got to do this and you've got to do that.

Vince Vaughn is a genuine person, awesome guy. He'll come to a lot of my shows. It's not that often that you can meet someone as cool as Vince.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work.

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero.

So you start one person at a time. Change one person, you can change a village.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

I'm so vigorous, and I so take it for granted, because I've always been a real physical person.

Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame.

I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.

I want people to understand me as a person with views, not just performing songs.