Top 1200 Rare Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.

I'm using my own person in pieces, but I'm trying to turn my person into a nonperson in the sense of a person without will, without volition. I'm subjecting myself to a scheme.

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.

Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or with impressing the other, or are trying to decide what you are going to say when the other stops talking, or are debating about whether what is being said is true or relevant or agreeable. Such matters have their place, but only after listening to the word as the word is being uttered. Listening is a primitive act of love in which a person gives himself to another’s word, making himself accessible and vulnerable to that word.

I am the kind of person who really will drive hours for a bowl of chili. I'm not a three-star restaurant kind of a person; I'm just a food person.

The book is so rich and yet it is well done. A rare achievement indeed!

To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

Every person is so different and I dont think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then youre pretty lucky.

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

I think I am a rare breed, a homosexual who doesn't like men.

These kinds of scripts telling the stories of women are very rare.

I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

TALENT and WORK ETHIC, the most important and RARE combination.

Money is cool, but being proud of yourself is something that's so rare.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

You humiliate a rich person and they're still rich. You humiliate a brilliant person and they're still smart. A person who is well connected is still the king of England. But if you humiliate a young person, you take away the only form of power they have.

The audience and I have an intimacy that is, I believe, rare, most times out.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

Knowledge is a rare thing -- you gain by giving it away.

Generally, common sense is rare in the (higher) rank.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

In the founders, I look for a person I feel is trustworthy, driven and smart. I invest in the person first, because in the event the business fails, the person and I can move forward and create another business.

If dragons were common, and you could look at one in the zoo - but zebras were a rare legendary creature that had finally been decided to be mythical - then there's a certain sort of person who would ignore dragons, who would never bother to look at dragons, and chase after rumors of zebras. The grass is always greener on the other side of reality. Which is rather setting ourselves up for eternal disappointment, eh? If we cannot take joy in the merely real, our lives shall be empty indeed.

A lot of artists I like end up being queer. Or maybe it's a subconscious thing that you can identify of, like, 'Oh this person understands the nuances of the romantic narrative of a queer person, or the social narrative of a queer person.' And then you discover, lo and behold that they are a queer person.

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

When people come together too young, they try to become one person. As you get older, you realize that you don't want to become one person because then you lose the person you are.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes and failures, a person that's full of joy and sorrow. I'm interested in people that are human beings that are alive.

If you're positioned to start your own organization, that's great - but rare.

One person can make a difference. In fact, its not only possible for one person to make a difference, its essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

Tibetans look at a person who holds himself above others, believing he is better than others and knows more, and they say that person is like someone sitting on a mountain top: it is cold there, it is hard, and nothing will grow. But if the person puts himself in a lower position, then that person is like a fertile field.

She's a rare vase, out of a cat's reach, on its shelf.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

The need for Kitsch arises when genuine emotion has become rare.

It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

Loyalty is such a rare quality; but my fans are the most loyal in the world.

To find a new British composer who is really good is rare.

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

Common sense - so rare it's a god damn superpower

The "we" voice is rare, and the communal impulse of the "we" is interesting to me.

Only one person can retire Brock Lesnar - only one person can end his career - and that person's going to be me.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

"And what would humans be without love?" Rare, said Death.

I've always been a pretty candid person. I'm not a very secretive person; I'm not a very discreet person. One of my best friends once described me as pathologically indiscreet.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

If a person calls themself 'autistic' and you tell them they have to use 'person first language'... you're not putting the person first.

One person can make a difference. In fact, it's not only possible for one person to make a difference, it's essential that one person makes a difference. And believe it or not, that person is you.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Common sense among men of fortune is rare.

A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

What I do for a living and how I unwind are one and the same; it's a rare special thing.

Every person is so different and I don't think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then you're pretty lucky.

Your true cosmopolitan is born, not made. He is very rare.