Person Quotes

In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick a fork into the piecrust to see if there was still any steam underneath.

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

I'm definitely a messy person... I know where everything is but I just can't organize. I don't make lists and find scripts on the laundry machine, and under my bed, or in the bathroom, kitchen. It's bad, I really need to take control.

No person who denies the existence of a supreme being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

The best thing to do is find one person in your life and try to love them unconditionally. If you've accomplished that, you've accomplished a lot.

My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.

We feel it's unacceptable to be fat, when it has nothing to do with who the person actually is.

I think you ultimately have to love who you're playing. You have to have that kind of feeling. You have to have passion for the person.

I learned that you go through things, you deal with them and that's what empowers you and ultimately makes you a happy person.

Ultimately, I'm not so sure that, as a person, I'm all that interesting.

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

If in any divination the Tenth Card should be a Court Card, it shews that the subject of the divination falls ultimately into the hands of a person represented by that card, and its end depends mainly on him.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.