- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Person Quotes
On character, focus and what makes a person who they are.
These quotes describe personal identity in different lights: spirituality that exists outside organized religion, competitiveness aimed inward rather than at others, and the wide or narrow focus people bring to their goals. For more, see our I Am quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a person who has a hard time saying no, and it gets me into trouble because I sometimes overreach.
- Devil
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?
- Faults
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- Nov 07, 2020
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.
- Humility
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- Nov 07, 2020
A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
- Allowances
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- Nov 07, 2020
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got a piece of a dead person's ligament in my body.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a kind of competitive person. I am competitive with myself. I won't let anything go until I am satisfied with how it is.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never really considered doing stand up, but I have done readings/spoken word things fairly often in which I'll just tell a bunch of stories and run off at the mouth. I'm a big tangent person.
- Dog
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight.
- First World War
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- Nov 07, 2020
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.
- Loud
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- Nov 07, 2020