Persons Quotes

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.

To repeat, communitarians maintain that we are constituted as persons by our particular obligations, and therefore those obligations cannot be a matter of choice.

You must see the persons who are in charge - persons you can punish or vote for.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.

Usually, those persons closest to the incoming President will be the main leaders of the Transition effort. They are most familiar with his policies and practices, and are able to interpret his wishes regarding the structure and staffing of the new Administration.

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy.

Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

With the requests of some he complied, and has published a discourse, delivered before the Society for recovering drowned persons, which may be justly pronounced one of the most beautiful and interesting sermons in the English language.

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.

Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.

Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.