Person Or Persons Quotes

#1. Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condense and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.

Thomas Szasz

#2. Raven: The Reverend Mr Larynx has been called off on duty, to marry or bury (I don't know which) some unfortunate person or persons, at Claydyke: ...

Thomas Love Peacock

#3. You exert a certain degree of influence, and be it ever so small, it affects some person or persons, and for the results of the influence you exert you are held accountable. You, therefore, whether you acknowledge it or not, have assumed an importance before God and man that cannot be overlooked.

Lorenzo Snow

#4. I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.

Gregg Allman

#5. the government' - that's too sweeping a term. 'The government' is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not 'the government' - but what individuals?

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Billy Graham

#7. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

Maya Angelou

#8. The Nac Mac Feegle (also called Pictsies, The Wee Free Men, The Little Men, and "Person or Persons Unknown, Believed to be Armed")

Terry Pratchett

#9. Diversity is its most consistent characteristic ... The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Derek Bailey

#10. If I have a right to a job, education, health care or a house, then I must be able to specify the person or persons who owe me any or all of these things.

Richard Allen Epstein

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

Bo Bennett

#12. There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.

Margaret Mead

#13. It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.

Robert Kennedy

#14. I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.

Kirby Larson

#15. If it were possible for any one person or group of persons to go through a photographic finishing plant's work at the end of a day, you could probably pull out the most extraordinary photographic exhibition we've ever seen. On almost any subject. The trouble is to find the things.

Edward Steichen

#16. I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.

Patrick McEnroe

#17. To mention a loved object, a person, or a place to someone else is to invest that object with reality.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#18. Either you're a person who will be stopped, or you are a person who won't be stopped. You choose.

T. Harv Eker

#19. Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it. A. Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

#20. How funny your name would be if you could follow it back to where the first person thought of saying it, naming himself that, or maybe some other persons thought of it and named that person. It would be like following a river to its source, which would be impossible. Rivers have no source.

John Ashbery

#21. Fashion seems to exist for an abstract person who is not you or me.

Elizabeth Bowen

#22. Sometimes coincidentally an unintelligent person can accomplish a task but that does not mean that he is a knower of means and device or is experienced. A ruler should be careful enough to designate other tasks to such persons.

Chanakya

#23. It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.

Lights

#24. A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

#25. No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

Lokendra Singh

#26. DISCRIMINATE, v.i. To note the particulars in which one person or thing is, if possible, more objectionable than another.

Ambrose Bierce

#27. Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Sydney Smith

#28. the killing of dangerous Rioters, by any private Persons, who cannot otherwise suppress them, or defend themselves from Them, inasmuch as every private Person seems to be authorised by the Law to arm himself for the Purposes aforesaid.

Stephen P. Halbrook

#29. There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them.

William Cornelius Van Horne

#30. A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

L. Ron Hubbard

#31. Distinguish between the person and the behavior or performance.

Stephen Covey

#32. We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

Harriet Lerner

#33. Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Charlie Munger

#34. There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.

Zig Ziglar

#35. One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Tomas Eloy Martinez

#36. The only person you have to think about lying twice to is either yourself or to God. The press isn't either of them. And I just figured they're irrelevant.

Bob Dylan

#37. A person has to keep something to herself or your life is just a layout in a magazine.

Grace Kelly

#38. Maybe they just like me because they like me, and they don't like me because they feel like they have to like me because they like this person or that person.

Wale

#39. There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass.

Serena Williams

#40. It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

Henry Fielding

#41. When you choose to do a role, I think you can either be that person or have the potential of being that person.

Mia Maestro

#42. You can't just explain a joke. Either it isn't funny, or the person just totally missed the punchline.

Cass McCombs

#43. A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

Napoleon Hill

#44. When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the
person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good
you can be.

Chin-Ning Chu

#45. There is no more direct or honest person than Jim Clapper.

Dianne Feinstein

#46. If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

Wayne Dyer

#47. No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

Theodor Reik

#48. Whether I'm down or whether things are great, I try to stay the same person all the time.

Torii Hunter

#49. One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#50. What a person wills and not what they know determines their worth or unworth, power or impotence, happiness or unhappiness.

Robert M. Lindner

#51. Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.

Pat Tillman

#52. That is the difference between a good song and a bad song lyrically - if you can listen to it and put yourself in that place, or see that person in that place, normally it is a pretty good song.

Ne-Yo

#53. We hold that no person or set of persons can properly establish a standard of expression for others.

William Randolph Hearst

#54. Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.

Napoleon Hill

#55. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

Carlo M. Cipolla

#56. There's nothing better than actually getting to watch the person and see his or her mannerisms.

Jonathan Jackson

#57. Before you tell yourself you have no right to invent this or improve that, remind yourself that the person before you had no right either, but did it anyway.

Seth Godin

#58. The covetous person is full of fear; and he or she who lives in fear will ever be a slave.

Horace

#59. Every movie I've made is different, but it's because I'm different. I'm not the same person I was in 1992 or 1999

Gregg Araki

#60. It's not good to focus on one person or two persons about being your rivals. The important thing is just to train hard and be ready for the competition and to prepare for the races so that in case of anything that comes out, you are able to handle it.

David Rudisha

#61. Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers ... seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

Paul Fussell

#62. I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

Leni Zumas

#63. A theoretical social state in which there is no governing person or body of persons, but each individual has absolute liberty (without implication of disorder).

Stefan Molyneux

#64. Every person who dedicates his or her life to something that belongs to the greater good is very meaningful.

Mariane Pearl

#65. Neither believe nor reject any thing because any other person, or description of persons have rejected or believed it. Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven ...

Thomas Jefferson

#66. The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property, without his consent in person, or by representation.

James Otis

#67. A person is either a Christian or not; there is no in between state

C.F.W. Walther

#68. That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.

Helene Deutsch

#69. The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

Michael Vanderbyl

#70. It's never a metric, it's where the person is going or not. Metrics are used to make things work better, but don't necessarily make a business better.

Keith Rabois

#71. It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law.

Pope Benedict XVI

#72. Never allow two people to do a job which one could do. George Washington observed, 'Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

David Ogilvy

#73. The hardest working person in showbusiness has never been or ever will be a 'famous person'.

Daniel Tosh

#74. One cannot always summarize massive issues by looking at the life of one person or one family, or even one community.

Fred Ritchin

#75. A person is never entirely holy or entirely sinful.

Hermann Hesse

#76. Never say "Au revoir" unless you have been talking French, or are speaking to a French person.

Emily Post

#77. Do not be angry with an ungrateful person; probably they are confused or inexperienced.

Chico Xavier

#78. Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#79. The unhappy person is never present to themself because they always live in the past or the future.

Soren Kierkegaard

#80. Check out not to become a man or woman of achievement, but instead seek to become a particular person of price.

Albert Einstein

#81. I don't try to rap about or emulate the life of another person.

Lazarus Of Bethany

#82. Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Simon Sinek

#83. True love allows each person to follow his or her own path, aware that doing so can never drive them apart.

Paulo Coelho

#84. There is no value with just one restaurant or with one person. The brand has to be bigger than the person.

Wolfgang Puck

#85. Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.

Iyanla Vanzant

#86. One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.

Fred Rogers

#87. Not everyone is the same. You can't label a person just because of what they do or what they've done.

Common

#88. As for the concept of collective guilt, I personally think that it is totally unjustified to hold one person responsible for the behavior of another person or a collective of persons.

Viktor E. Frankl

#89. I'm a really trusting person and I always have been. I just think I've cultivated a very keen skill of recognising someone I shouldn't trust, pretty readily. A person has about 15 to 27 seconds before I'm pretty sure whether or not I can trust them or not.

Julia Roberts

#90. To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#91. The more a person becomes spiritually minded or advances towards God, the more tolerant he becomes and the less differentiation he sees.

Meher Baba

#92. I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Walker Percy

#93. A successful person never loses ... they either win or learn!

John Calipari

#94. Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Charles R. Swindoll

#95. There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?

W. Somerset Maugham

#96. Enslavement is when one person completely controls another person, uses violence or violent threats to maintain that control, exploits them economically, and pays them effectively nothing. Trafficking in persons is a process of enslaving someone.

Julia Ormond

#97. A person either creates or destroys. There is no neutrality.

Saul Bellow

#98. Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

Anita Shreve

#99. The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.

Jesse Helms

#100. See what a person is doing every day, day after day, and you'll know who that person is and what he or she is becoming.

John C. Maxwell