A person who deserves my loyalty receives it.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
‐‐ Emily Bronte
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
‐‐ Thomas Carlyle
A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
‐‐ Alexander Pope
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
‐‐ Shirley MacLaine
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
‐‐ Albert Einstein
A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.
‐‐ Daisaku Ikeda
A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.
‐‐ Edna St. Vincent Millay
A person who's only suffering can't write a poem. There are choices to be made, and you need to be objective.
‐‐ Edward Hirsch
A person who shakes a leg to 'Zor ka jhatka' at a disc doesn't care about its picturization in the film. He enjoys and downloads it because of the merit of the song.
‐‐ Shaan
A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.
‐‐ Cat Stevens
A person who suffers from severe locomotor anxiety finds himself in an almost permanent state of mental tension. He wakes in the morning with the anxious expectation of having to go out somewhere in the course of the day.
‐‐ Karl Abraham
A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.
‐‐ Pope Francis
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
‐‐ Mark Twain
A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.
‐‐ Ellen G. White
A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future.
‐‐ Frank Tipler
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
‐‐ Robert Frost
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
‐‐ Mark Twain
A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.
‐‐ Matt Berninger
A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.
‐‐ John Singer Sargent
A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.
‐‐ Adelbert von Chamisso
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
‐‐ Harry Emerson Fosdick
A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.
‐‐ Biz Stone
A personal brand is relevant to people who sell or create something relevant to who they are as a person. If you're not in that boat, which most people are not, personal branding makes no sense.
‐‐ Tucker Max
A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
‐‐ Oscar Isaac
A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.
‐‐ Niall Horan
A personal library is a reflection of who you are and who you want to be, of what you value and what you desire, of how much you know and how much more you'd like to know.
‐‐ Michael Dirda
A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
‐‐ Laurel Lea
A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
‐‐ Jean de La Fontaine
A pessimist is a man who looks both ways when he crosses the street.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter
A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.
‐‐ Cyrano de Bergerac
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.
‐‐ Chauncey Depew
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
‐‐ Don Marquis
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
‐‐ Harry S Truman
A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
‐‐ Elbert Hubbard
A pet store is a celebration of dogs' existence and an explosion of options. About cats, a pet store seems to say, 'Here, we couldn't think of anything else.' Cats are the Hanukkah of the animal world in this way. They are feted quietly and happily by a minority, but there's only so much hoopla applicable to them.
‐‐ Sloane Crosley
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
‐‐ Graham Greene
A philanthropic venture requires all the energy, knowledge and money from its founder that a company requires from the leadership team.
‐‐ Romesh Wadhwani
A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
‐‐ John C. Wright
A philosopher is, no doubt, entitled to examine even those distinctions that are to be found in the structure of all languages... in that case, such a distinction may be imputed to a vulgar error, which ought to be corrected in philosophy.
‐‐ Thomas Reid
A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'
‐‐ A. P. Martinich
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein