Persons Quotes

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first move - and he, in turn, waits for you.

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation.

It not infrequently happens that persons without any other special qualification than the drama of their lives are precipitated into important political positions.

This is not a contest between persons. The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. I come to you in defense of a cause as holy as the cause of liberty - the cause of humanity.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

In addition, we were unable to meet openly to discuss the progress of the book, for we were both on the list of persons banned from communicating with other banned persons.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.