Persons Quotes - Page 22

• You are actually the worst person I have ever met.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Worst Person, Mets, Worst

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• I was just an okay person.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Okay

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• If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Pride, Past

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• He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

  Sinclair Lewis

  People, Misanthropy

  Sinclair Lewis (2011). “It Can't Happen Here (搶救美國)”, p.1276, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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• If I love the other person, I feel one with him or her, but with him as he is, not as I need him to be as an object for my use. Respect thus implies the absence of exploitation: it allows the other to be, to change and to develop 'in his own ways.' This requires a commitment to know the other as a separate being, and not merely as a reflection of my own ego. According to Velleman this loving willingness and ability to see the other as they really are is foregrounded in our willingness to risk self-exposure.

  Erich Fromm

  Commitment, Reflection, Self

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• the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

  Dan Savage

  Reading, Decent

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• She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.

  Neil Gaiman

  Father, Heart, Mind

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• When you’re in love, your brain secretes endorphins into your blood. Organic morphine leaks out of a gland in your skull, feels like a low-grade opium rush. Some people confuse the two, the head rush and the love. You think you’re in love with a person, but you’re in love with a syringe.

  Craig Clevenger

  Love You, Thinking, Two

  Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”

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• Oh diary, I love her, I love her, I love her so much. Jordana is the most amazing person I have ever met. I could eat her. I could drink her blood. She's the only person I would allow to be shrunk to microscopic size and explore me in a tiny submersible machine. She is wonderful and beautiful and sensitive and funny and sexy. She's too good for me, she's too good for anyone! All I could do was let her know. I said: "I love you more than words. And I am a big fan of words.

  Joe Dunthorne

  Beautiful, Sexy, Love You

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• It never occurred to him that now he was looking at his master, at the one person in all the world who held his fate right between her palms - me, in patched hand-me-downs and untrimmed hair and idiot smile - and that my hatred for him is pure and black and unforgiving. And that I don't believe in God, but if I did, if I did, it would be the God of Moses, angry and demanding and OUT FOR REVENGE.

  Elizabeth Wein

  Revenge, Believe, Fate

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• And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Believe, Negative, Genius

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.151, Macmillan

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• You don't think I'm crazy?" I asked hesitantly. "Like I'm one to judge another persons sanity.

  Gena Showalter

  Crazy, Thinking, Judging

  Gena Showalter (2015). “The White Rabbit Chronicles: Alice in Zombieland\Through the Zombie Glass\The Queen of Zombie Hearts”, p.258, Harlequin

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• True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Lying, Mean

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2013). “Affliction”, p.221, Penguin

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• You think I'm cute?" He said thinkly, pulling on her hand. She was glad he couldn't see her face. "I think you're..." Beautiful. Breathtaking. Like the person in a Greek myth who makes one of the gods stop caring about being a god.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Cute, Beautiful, Caring

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• Being polite to a person is not a sign of respect for them. It is merely a sign of a good upbringing and a balanced nature.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Good Upbringing, Polite, Balanced

  Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson (2013). “A Memory of Light”, p.50, Macmillan

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• It's easy to smile just to make other people feel better. But when a person fakes happy, it has edges. Regular people may not see, but the people who count, they can see the edges and the lines where your smile ends and the real you, the sadness (me) or the anger (Grandma) begins.

  Heidi W. Durrow

  Real, Grandma, Sadness

  Heidi W. Durrow (2011). “The Girl Who Fell from the Sky”, p.29, Algonquin Books

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• Psychologists usually offer three explanations for the failure of group brainstorming. The first is social loafing: in a group, some individuals tend to sit back and let others do the work. The second is production blocking: only one person can talk or produce an idea at once, while the other group members are forced to sit passively. And the third is evaluation apprehension, meaning the fear of looking stupid in front of one's peers.

  Susan Cain

  Block, Stupid, Ideas

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.89, Broadway Books

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• The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Care, Villain, Knows

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• Hale, stop it.” Kat reached out and grabbed his arm. “You are many things, but stupid isn't one of them.” “I'm too close.” “You don't get it, do you? Being close is good. Caring is good. I love that you're emotional and passionate and can't turn these things off.” “It makes me a bad thief.” “It makes you a good person.

  Ally Carter

  Stupid, Caring, Emotional

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• Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

  Mark Batterson

  Taken, Creativity, Games

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• I wanted to start over completely, to begin again as new people with nothing of the past left over. I wanted to run away from who we had been seen to be, who we had been... It's the first thing I think of when trouble comes - the geographic solution. Change your name, leave town, disappear, make yourself over. What hides behind that impulse is the conviction that the life you have lived, the person you are, is valueless, better off abandoned, that running away is easier than trying to change things, that change itself is not possible.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, Doors, People

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

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• So help me God,” I said slowly, clearly, when Cate looked up at me. “If you go back on your word, I will tear you apart. And I won’t stop, not ever, until I’ve destroyed your life and the lives of every single person in this organization. Believe me, you may not always keep your promises, but I do.

  Alexandra Bracken

  Believe, Organization, Promise

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• Anything a person chases in life runs away.

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  Sherry Argov

  Running, Running Away

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

  Cassandra Clare

  Beautiful, Believe, Add

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “The Midnight Heir”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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