Top 1200 Knowing A Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I do believe in the sanctity of marriage. ...But I don't see that as conflict with being a tolerant person or an understanding person.

The most powerful force when changing people's hearts and minds is a person-to-person conversation.

I'm my own person, and people can say whatever they want. I'm still going to be the person that I am.

I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God.

My mom is a very independent person, and she's the funniest, smartest person in the room, all the time.

When we try to describe one person to another …, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job—no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being.

I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.

There is no definition of terrorism and there is still the reality that one person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

While Person A might believe the kitchen counter provides a reasonable surface on which to place one's balled-up sweatsocks post-gym, Person B - about to cut up some vegetables on that same counter, perhaps for a meal intended to be shared with Person A - can only read the sockball as a message that says, 'Hi! I have contempt for you!'

A grateful person is rich in contentment. An ungrateful person suffers in the poverty of endless discontentment.

Sincerity doesn't mean anything. A person can be sincere and be more destructive than a person who is insincere.

There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

The underdog is a person that's at risk, a person that has a lot of big trials you have to overcome. I mean, that was my life.

Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in our hearts. Like the poet's image of a church bell that reveals its latent music only when struck, or a dragonfly that flames forth its beauty only in flight, so does the content of a human heart lie buried until action calls it forth. The greatest act of self-revelation occurs when we choose what we will believe, in that space of freedom that exists between knowing that a thing is and knowing that a thing is not.

I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

I figure if you have one person that loves you, that's enough, growing up. You just need one person in your corner.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each person's story is as different as his fingertips.

I like being part of a film scene where the person at the top is a really good person.

The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Man's Heart serves as a transmitter and receiver from person to person and from servant to Glorious God.

Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Remember that you don't have to like or admire someone to feel compassion for that person. All you have to do is wish for that person to be happy.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

There is only one person who can ever know exactly what you want and truly make you happy - that person is you!

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

Either you like a person or you don't like a person. I don't have to love somebody to work with them. I'm a professional person. But when you get the bonus of really liking someone and really connecting with them and really enjoying them, it's a fantastic thing.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

The person with the least worry over the compromises he must make is, of course, the person who doesn't compromise.

I guess I define myself as a mother, a wife, kind of a nutty person. A good person.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they're nuts or they're crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

If I have to change my religious beliefs, I would not marry the person that I love because the first person that I love is God, who created me. And I have my faith and my principles and this is what makes me who I am. And if that person loves me, he should love my God too.

I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research

Just because someone lives in a hut, that doesn't mean that isn't a good person, that that person can't do better, that person isn't capable of being great. And just because it's a hut - whatever that means - doesn't mean it's not a home.

Yeah, 'Mine' was inspired by a person, but it became much deeper than that. I obviously pulled lyrics... from stuff I was actually saying to this person and feeling about this person, but it was for people. I didn't want to make that song to impress that girl; I wanted to make that song to make people feel better.

When the psychiatrist approves of a person's actions, he judges that person to have acted with "free choice"; when he disapproves,he judges him to have acted without "free choice." It is small wonder that people find "free choice" a confusing idea: "free choice" appears to refer to what the person being judged (often called the "patient") does, whereas it is actually what the person making the judgment (often a psychiatrist or other mental health worker) thinks.

Love ... Just Nature's way of getting one person to pay the bills for another person.

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person.

The hardest working person in showbusiness has never been or ever will be a 'famous person'.

A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behaviour. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder

You cannot be the person they know and the great, glorious person you want to become. Not at the same time.

The differences between a competent person and an incompetent person are demonstrated in his environment (surroundings).

The only difference between a RICH person and a POOR person is how they use their time.

Through our long career we never got to work together until 2013 when we signed 'Club 60.' Until then I always liked him from afar. I knew Farooque Sahab was a decent person, a warm person, but it was only after I met him during this shoot that I realized what an enormously nice and genuine person he was.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of Twilight, and then it happened again on New Moon. Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.

Love is a person's idea about his/her needs in other person what you are attracted to.

The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's the person who knew what to look for. And cultivating that capacity to seek what's significant, always willing to question whether you're on the right track - that's what education is going to be about, whether it's using computers and the Internet, or pencil and paper, or books.

I wouldn't be the type of person to critique anybody. I've got to look at myself first, to be a better person.

We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.