Top 1200 Strange Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

I think, as a white person, I do not want to speak for a black person.

No black person married to a white person can speak for me!

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

A promiscuous person is a person who is getting more sex than you are.

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

A mother isn’t the person who births you; it’s the person who rears you and shows you love.

One person's mess is merely another person's filing system.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons.

The person who writes the bank's commercials is not the person who makes the loans.

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

I believe that a writer is a person who writes. An author is a person who has written.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are the timeless axis of all action and preception. The only difference is that one 'knows' himself for what he is while the other does not. The idea of being a person, an ego, is nothing other than an image held together by memory.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

A truly intelligent person is the dumbest person on the team he is leading.

The strange thing about my life is that I came to America at about the time when racial attitudes were changing. This was a big help to me. Also, the people who were most cruel to me when I first came to America were black Americans. They made absolute fun of the way I talked, the way I dressed. I couldn't dance. The people who were most kind and loving to me were white people. So what can one make of that? Perhaps it was a coincidence that all the people who found me strange were black and all the people who didn't were white.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be.

After all, a crisis doesn't make a person; it reveals what a person is made of.

Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore.

I've always felt that I was talking to one person. But I've never envisioned who that one person is.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

On connecting: Where does one person end and another person begin?

There's no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.

There's no one person I can talk to and try and be as him - but the one person I want to is my dad.

I'm a cat person, I'm a dog person, I work in wildlife rescue.

In many ways, love seems to be totally divorced from economics. But then you realize - well, the stakes are high. This is something that matters to us. We're dealing with scarcity. I mean, if you're dating one person, at the very least, you don't have as much time to date another person. And you may well find that you can only date one person at a time.

I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

My dad was a class person on and off the field. That's the person I want to be.

the Law has made the man and wife one person, and that one person the husband!

What is your Self? Self is nothing but joy. A joyous person is definitely a person who has got his Self expressing through his joy. Such a person is so joy-giving, so humorous, and never degrading anyone.

When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.

A journal is a very personal thing. As far as possible, to write this sort of book you need to know and feel your character as a person and then put yourself into that person's mind, place and time. Trying to stay in that person, place and time is a challenge when surrounded by this very different world of the 21st century.

I'm a realistic person, but I'm also a person who believes a lot in goals.

I meet a person as the person. I try to not give away who they are or who they're supposed to be.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

I'm not an outdoors person by instinct or nature. I'm more of a city person.

The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

There is only one person responsible for the quality of life you live and that person is you.

I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.

There's an eternal war between a creative person and the business person.

I'm not an unhappy person - I'm just an anxious person. It runs in the family.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

...the person you encounter is often more than the person you see.