Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
George Bernard Shaw
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was.
George Bernard Shaw
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Do you know what a pessimist is? A person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
Oprah Winfrey
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
Oscar Wilde
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Oscar Wilde
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
Chuck Palahniuk
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Benjamin Disraeli
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Nixon and the White House.
John F. Kennedy
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas Jefferson
Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle.
Soren Kierkegaard
A poor person is often worthy.
Irish Proverb
You don't have to be a "person of influence" to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
Scott Adams
The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
By hating that person, you have lost something very sweet in yourself.
Sri Chinmoy
The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
Oprah Winfrey
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
Carl Sagan
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Hermann Hesse
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.
William Shakespeare
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
Aldous Huxley
If you don't find God in the next person you meet, it is a waste of time looking for him further.
Mahatma Gandhi
Affection cannot be manufactored or regulated by law. If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should be free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection, so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite to violence.
Mahatma Gandhi
Every serious-minded person knows that a large part of the effort required in moral discipline consists in the courage needed to acknowledge the unpleasant consequences of one's past and present acts.
John Dewey
I loved the feeling of freedom in running, the fresh air, the feeling that the only person I'm competing with is me.
Wilma Rudolph
Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Dale Carnegie
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
Walt Disney
I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
Steve Jobs
If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.
Frank Tyger
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
G. K. Chesterton
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese Proverb
If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Bill Clinton
A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
Chinese Proverb
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
German Proverb
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
Vernon Howard
A genius is just a talented person who does his homework.
Thomas A. Edison
True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.
Lawana Blackwell
There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.
Gore Vidal
In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.
William S. Burroughs
God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
Robert Browning
The person had to be really familiar with the main sites in Buffalo.
Robert Browning
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C. S. Lewis
If my film makes one more person miserable, I've done my job.
Woody Allen
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Katharine Hepburn
I don't really trust a sane person.
Lyle Alzado
Americans are a free people, who know that freedom is the right of every person and the future of every nation. The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world; it is God's gift to humanity.
George W. Bush
... if you find a person that you've never seen before getting in a crop duster that doesn't belong to you -- report it.
George W. Bush
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Jean Paul Richter
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love the greater the jealousy.
Robert A. Heinlein
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
Bertrand Russell
I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little more intimidating. Even the maid who comes to work for me once a week has found out that she can just trample over me... I'm a Cancer! We are not ferocious people.
Karen Black
We don't suspect any person in particular. But there must have been someone who handled these materials.
Heinz Jungwirth
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
She was a tireless worker for good causes and Democrats in the state. She was active and hard working, and just a very nice person.
Shane Pendergrass
Doubting God's existence is okay and perfectly acceptable within Christianity as long as the person doubting remains obedient and committed to the Christian path.
Real Live Preacher
We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.
M. Scott Peck
Ryan's always graded out very well. He's a person with great balance, and he has great lower body strength as well. He's all lower body and that's what we need for pass blocking.
Stacy Adams
The person sins, then blames Satan for it.
Afghan Proverb
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
If (the complexes) are big enough, they have a maintenance person who'll take care of it.
Jerry Hittleman
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns he must die and accepts his sentence undismayed.
Robert A. Heinlein
The time when domestic violence is the most lethal is when the person is trying to leave the situation.
Julie Johnston
About 25 percent of the time, you might be asked to donate again to that same person if they need a boost.
Kevin Meyer
A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
I don't go with the flow. The average person in Jacksonville doesn't really care about politics until they hit you in the pocketbook or until they try to put something in your back yard.
George Cleveland
We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right now.' He and me talked about my Navy career. He told me he was in the Navy. He showed me his card and asked where I was from. He asked what I was doing in the area. He was a good man. He was a God-fearing person. He didn't deserve to die.
Joe White
[The council] looks like a free-for-all, but it's just one person: Jerry. The rest of us work together.
Robert Jenkins
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
Nick Carter
We want them to get out, get a job and make progress. We want to help them make the change from being an addicted person to a recovering person.
Sherry Pfeaster
I am so happy to be part of work we do on behalf of the Alzheimer's and dementia clients. If I can make one person comfortable and happy, it makes my day.
Michelle Warren
I'm their mom, I'm their worst enemy, I'm the person that kicks them in the butt. It's different roles for different students.
Anne Haverland
They're going to either be outraged or feel humiliated. Or if they're a particularly strong person, they may realize that it's a sad statement about the person who put it up.
Debra Moore
I wasn't really raised to be the type of person to have doubts.
John Malkovich
It can be a distraction. You tend to lose focus when you work because you're listening to that person.
Travis Price
It depends on the person. I'm open to meeting new people, so it is not an issue.
Sagarika Wijeratne
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine
I would never put my family in any danger and I would do anything to keep my family from harm's way. I am sure any person would do the same as I have done.
Michael Czugaj
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
George Carlin
He's very outgoing and he has that style on the air. It was just that Mark is Mark, he's the same in person as he is on the air. Mark has his unique own way, but he's a very disciplined broadcaster.
Bill Mercer
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W. Somerset Maugham
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee
He was twice as old as when they sentenced him to die, and he certainly wasn't the same person that he was when he was sentenced.
Clive Stafford Smith
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
James Thurber
We're looking to see if this person (Dale) had knowledge of the animal's prior behavior.
Bob Garcia
When someone comes in, we don't know for sure if that will be a person who spontaneously gets better or someone who won't.
Dr. Tom Krenek
This is a good kid from a strong family with a father who wouldn't let him throw away that money. He didn't even get a car until about two years ago. He's an outstanding person.
Dayton Moore
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
After the chairman, at least in my opinion, Don has had a greater impact on the Fed's monetary policy process than any other single person, ... He was very close to the chairman, and they discussed issues frequently. He and this chairman were really a team.
Robert Parry
You are the only person who can sell you, so you do spend a lot of time in your job by yourself everyday.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.
Tim Robbins
I got to model for a while, but mainly because any blonde-haired, blue-eyed person can model in Japan.
Adam Trusner
If one person would have had all this, that would have been trafficking quantities.
George Kajtsa
Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor.
Jeffrey Klein
If you are foolish enough to establish a link to an agent of the Chinese government then the only person hurt by that would be you.
Brian Clarke
Not many people have seen the real Grady Paxton yet. He is practicing like a bear every day. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. He's a great person and a great wrestler. He just needed to be healthy.
Bill Sutton
He was just a warm, energetic, fun-loving person.
Steve Schwartz
Thank God for Ivy, his wife. She was kind of my contact person. Lindsey would tell me only so much of what he was doing. Ivy would give me the fine details.
Arnie Kander
A young person may be exposed to a loud noise and cause permanent damage, but a younger ear will compensate and so the effect of that damage is not noticed. As you get older, you lose hearing and the damage becomes more apparent.
Iain Grant
I'm a quiet person.
Robert Young
He's as nice as he is a good player. He's a nice, kind person. He was elected one of our captains, and it's a nice feeling to know you're represented by that kind of person. He has great character .
Robert Cendro
The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.
Jo Coudert
This way, a person with a disability isn't left hanging while the request works its way through the system.
Sarah Hawthorne
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
Fred Allen
Our argument is that the more networking there is in the prefrontal cortex, the more the person has an upper hand in lying. Their verbal skills are higher. They almost have a natural advantage.
Adrian Raine
I was the first person who donated blood in the first mobile blood van in Shenzhen. I have formed a habit of donating blood every six months since then.
Gu Lihua's
It's exciting, I didn't really expect to win. I thought about a situation where someone driving would ask someone to drink and another person saying, 'No.' And then I got to work.
Robert Wallace
I haven't talked with her since she became famous, so I don't know if she's changed, but she's a nice person and I think that won't change.
Sarah Fisher
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what kind of a person you are.
C.S. Lewis
The missing person case has never been closed, ... She has never been found, alive or dead.
Anthony Murphy
I absolutely made the right decision. The key is serving others. That is the key to happiness for any person. Serving others brings great joy. But the major difference now is that I don't have to be exhausted anymore. I do only one job, and that's big. No, that's huge.
Rob Willmann
I'm not a vain person at all.
Kristen Cruz
What we see in American culture, whenever you have problems like this, you turn to your publicity person.
Peter Wood
Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.
Chaim Potok
He's a very sick person. He should be in a very structured setting. He can be very dangerous.
Marilyn Callahan
We've done well for ourselves. Nobody's making a killing off of it. It's a labor of love; every person here does it because they care about it.
Nick Blandford
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.
Paul Auster
We are not trying to say that the person of interest is anybody more than may have been in that area of the complex when that vehicle was dropped off.
Sgt. Richard Ring
We have an expectations problem. If you offer it for traffic, a reasonable person would expect you would offer it for transit.
Randy Rentschler
Both are interested in hiring the right person.
Steve Mandell
I feel right now, here in Palatka, the average person really has no say-so. The commission, mayor and city manager basically run everything. They always say you can come forward with your ideas, but nobody really listens. I've become very frustrated.
Norman Peacock
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn - and change.
Carl Rogers
May want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.
Richard Jaffe
It takes 30 days for a change in behavior to become a habit, and six months for a habit to become the automatic way a person does things, ... If they haven't changed in 30 days, it's not happening.
Mark Goulston
This is not about character assassination, ... This is about questioning the ideology of a person who has continuously throughout her career made, really, a life's work of eroding and destroying the mission of the department she is now being named to lead.
Robert F. Kennedy
They never go out without an armed person.
Dave Bennett
There will be two new products next year. In the first half there will be a person-to-person skill game and in the second half there will be another more akin to casino.
Richard Segal
Maximum chief of the Spanish army, in other words, the person responsible for the torturers.
Arnaldo Otegi
Atheist: A person who believes in one less god than you do.
Donald Morgan
They simply need to state the reason, if it's creating some kind of hardship for the person.
Andrew Walton
High pay is partially due to competition for executives and being able to keep them, ... They know other companies in that field pay that kind of money. If they don?t the person is going to be gone in a very short period of time.
John Laughlin
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash
Our first goal is to get a good business manager. It's impossible to say how much that person would make.
Cynthia Lowery
I've been around a lot of celebrities, and I've been fortunate to be around great artists. It's extraordinarily rare that someone is who you want them to be. Paul McCartney is that person. He's the guy we all dreamed of meeting.
David Leaf
A person, say a male 40-year-old, could pay $300 to $350 a year. Ten years ago, that would've cost probably $800 to $1,000 a year.
Steve Weisbart
I was at this meeting, and I was the only person who dared to stand up for her, ... The department had been deeply divided over GESO issues.
David Graeber
Bill has stated many times Penn Hills has been good to him. He made most of his money in the community. Bill has been a generous person all his life. He is a humble man and good person.
Frank Pecora
I just told the girls that they better stop that No. 23 (Flores) because she was hot and she's their go-to person. I thought our girls did a good job of staying in her face, chasing her down and causing some deflections.
Diane Morgan
It would be a very foolish person who made any kind of judgement from how he answered tabloid questions at a press conference.
David Arnold
We're not the last person with our hand up at the auto auctions. They even bought a car that I couldn't sell at my lot for 100 days.
Michael Kozak
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher
This issue is not about an individual. This is about the law. Is this person in a class of people that the law prohibits from serving on the airport board?
Deb Kottel
I don't feel cheated. I get to spend every day with my wife, my favorite person, my soul mate. My kids are doing well. . . . It is interesting that at some level it's not until we're dying that we learn how to live.
Mark Wenzel
He's one of a kind. He's going to go out and tell it how it needs to be told. He's the kind of guy everybody likes to hang around. He's a people person.
Jamaal Tinsley
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.
Benjamin Stolberg
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott
[Rose] has been very good for us, but we can't rely on one person. We're just hitting the ball right at them. I'm confident in our lineup. We just have to keep plugging away and hopefully the ball will hit the gaps.
Holly Brown
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.
George Carlin
This may seem high to the lay person, but we know how much sick time is being used. What is harder to know is how much this costs us in overtime.
Jamaine Dickens
This is for a buy-and-hold person who doesn't want to do that much trading. They are well-suited to beginning investors, and they can be a good first investment. That said, the investor still needs to do a fair amount of due diligence at the outset.
Greg Carlson
She's a diligent person, and she refuses to stop. She's a go-getter.
Nicole Gibbons
In order to get Marty out of jail we had to get something that no other person or no other attorney had here. I had to give the attorney the murderer.
Jay Salpeter
The abusive person usually doesn't understand the game and are usually the loudest. Fans see officials abused on TV, and they think it's fine to do it on the high school level.
Sue Wilson
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua Loth Liebman
You do your best and give the other person thumbs-up.
Caitlin Tanner
It was a mutual thing as to what everybody deep down wanted. A lot of times when you create a bond, you kind of do the little extra things to make things happen, or to make that other person successful.
Ronnie White
Everybody found out about Blair dying on the news or from a phone call because it happened so far away. This is the first time that people can get together, in person, to deal with it.
Michael Flannery
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.
Dr. David M. Burns
No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.
Marian Anderson
I don't know Kordell Stewart as a person. He's probably a pretty good guy. But it didn't matter. I was playing against him. That's what mattered.
Bill Romanowski
If you look at the nature of the crime that has taken place clearly the person responsible for this matter must be treated with extreme caution and considered to be dangerous.
David Cook
Donald is a tough guy mentally and he's going to get through this because of the type person he is. Whenever he comes back, he's going to be a force.
Josh Williams
When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.
Louise Lippincott
The role-based idea just wouldn't fly here, because I can guarantee you that every person you define -- salesperson, executive -- is going to want some feature that's not in their role.
Mark Tucker
He's a person who leads through example. He has the potential to be a great football player.
Bob Arcurio
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person.
Wilfred A. Peterson
They're the best fit for me personally. In all aspects, they're probably the best fit for me as a person to give me the chance to succeed and do the best I can.
Darrell Davis
I think Mike is a really good person and he operated in what appeared to be an open fashion. But he was probably a little too honest with his feelings and emotions.
Stephen Backer
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