#person

The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#being #believes #complexity #deal #father

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person. ↗

— Atom Egoyan

#course #ended #finished #having #just

My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#i #known #life #like #makes

So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#good #just #likable #me #person

War may be an armed angel with a mission, but she has the personal habits of the slums. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#armed #habits #may #mission #personal

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#because #could #like #person #sleeping

Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? ↗

— Sargent Shriver

#any #because #believing #dignity #give

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#character #consists #consuming #deliberately #describe

I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement. ↗

— Mary Crosby

#i #i can #know #long #next

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

#boy #boy scout #capable #i #living