Top 100 Quotes About Persons
#1. We are not called "human stagnates." We are called human beings, persons in process, persons involved in the act and art of actually shaping or reshaping ourselves, or working to understand what Frank Barron calls the "patterns within diversity.
Sandra A. Thomson
#2. 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.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford
#3. That's what our Rules engage us to do, to help poor persons, our lords and masters.
Vincent De Paul
#4. The forest waves, the morning breaks,
The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
And life pulsates in rock or tree.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#5. The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
Susan B. Anthony
#6. Persons who discover a flatterer, do not always disapprove him, because he imagines them considerable enough to deserve his applications.
William Shenstone
#7. Like many persons more interested in power than sensual enjoyment, Sillery touched no strong drink.
Anthony Powell
#8. What marriage is for: It is a way for two spiritual friends to help each other on their journey to become the persons God designed them to be.
Timothy Keller
#9. Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
George Eliot
#10. Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
William Falconer
#11. Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#12. As we become civilized we are governed less by persons and more by principles ... The best of all leaders is the man who teaches people to lead themselves.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#13. All the great establishments, of every kind, now in the hands of a few proprietors, but employing a great number of wage laborers, would be broken up; for few or no persons, who could hire capital and do business for themselves would consent to labour for wages for another.
Lysander Spooner
#14. The novels we read allow us to encounter possible persons, versions of ourselves hat we would never see, never permit ourselves to see, never permit ourselves to become, in places we can never go and might not care to, while assuring that we get to return home again
Thomas C. Foster
#15. There are persons who always find a hair in their plate of soup for the simple reason that, when they sit down before it, they shake their heads until one falls in.
Christian Friedrich Hebbel
#16. I think friends are an extension of you and I always say, check out a persons five immediate friends and you'll know everything about them.
Aeriel Miranda
#17. Dogma is a lie reiterated and authoritatively injected into the mind of one or more persons who believe that they believe what someone else believes.
Elbert Hubbard
#18. I was surprised recently to find a book called "Poetry in Persons" that's coming out about visit to poets to a class that Pearl London gave.
Edward Hirsch
#19. Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
Oliver Ellsworth
#20. Particular attention should be given to the opportunities which the environment presents or precludes for involvement of children with persons both older and younger than themselves.
Urie Bronfenbrenner
#21. There are some persons on whom virtue sits almost as ungraciously as vice.
Dominique Bouhours
#22. Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.
Tracy Engelbrecht
#23. In the seventh century, John of Damascus described the relationship of the three persons of God as perichoresis. This word literally means the circle dance.
Tobin Wilson
#24. Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
John Pearson
#25. For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#26. The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
H.P. Lovecraft
#27. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
George Stephenson
#28. Rudeness is a weak persons imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
#29. Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles ... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law ... or, in a word justice.
Max Nordau
#30. A mob is a group of persons with heads but no brains.
Jet Li
#31. A certain man placed a fountain by the wayside, and he hung up a cup near to it by a little chain. He was told some time after that a great art-critic had found much fault with its design. 'But,' said he, 'do many thirsty persons drink at it?
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
Mark Twain
#33. The perfect marriage is a uniting of three persons - a man and a woman and God. That is what makes marriage holy.
Billy Graham
#34. Men in great place are thrice servants, servants to the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Francis Bacon
#35. In old persons, when thus fully expressed, we often observe a fair, plump, perennial waxen complexion, which indicates that all the ferment of earlier days has subsided into serenity of thought and behavior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#36. Poetry is not for poets, poetry lovers or perceived poetic persons only.
Poetry is in yourself, others and everything of nature and man-made.
Poetry may not be a solution, yet it can reveal or ease challenges faced.
Poetry is capable of affecting any heart.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#37. Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.
Ellen G. White
#38. It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
Robertson Davies
#39. They glared at her the way any intelligent persons ought to glare when what they need is a smoke, a bite, a cup of coffee, a piece of ass, or a good fast-paced story, and all they're getting is philosophy.
Tom Robbins
#40. Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.
Thomas J. Stanley
#41. She stopped for the duration of a glance around her, as if to recapture the place, but there was no recognition of persons in her eyes, the glance merely swept through the room, as if making a swift inventory of physical objects.
Ayn Rand
#42. We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Albert Einstein
#43. From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
Pope John Paul II
#44. Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent should suffer. - Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1766)
Anonymous
#45. His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.
Anthony Powell
#46. The whole constitution of property on its present tenures, is injurious, and its influence on persons deteriorating and degrading.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#47. We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#48. What is a loving heart? A loving heart is sensitive to the whole of life, to all persons; a loving heart doesn't harden itself to any persons or things.
Anthony De Mello
#49. The same current that drifts your boat may sink mine. No two persons walking this earth are the same, not even twins. Keep this in mind when dealing with others.
Peprah Boasiako
#50. Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.
Charles Caleb Colton
#51. His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail. Atticus had urged them to accept the state's generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with jackass.
Harper Lee
#52. Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.
Vincent De Paul
#53. The humblest peasant is as free in the sight of God as the proudest monarch that ever swayed a sceptre. Liberty is a spirit sent from God and like its great Author is no respecter of persons.
Henry Highland Garnet
#54. Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.
Lewis Carroll
#55. Atkins diet is not a "quick diet" as it is often presented. It is more a way of life. In obese individuals with cardiovascular disease, high blood sugar or triglycerides, or persons with epilepsy Atkins diet shows up as very successful long-term solution.
Jenna Lopez
#56. Once two persons are tied together freedom is lost and anger arises. When freedom is lost everything becomes ugly. Love means that freedom remains intact: marriage means that freedom has been dropped. You have bargained for permanence, for security, and you have paid for it with freedom.
Rajneesh
#58. When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.
Brennan Manning
#59. The only persons who seem to have nothing to do with the education of the children are the parents.
G.K. Chesterton
#60. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#61. Understanding comes hard to persons of high rank who are accustomed to phony lifestyles that involve no daily work.
Kenzaburo Oe
#62. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons.
Max Ehrmann
#63. Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,
as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.
Francis Bacon
#64. He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons. In a compensatory fashion, he was also free from certain other laws more commonly in force.
John Brunner
#65. The commanding general publishes, for the information of all concerned, that hereafter all persons found within our lines who commit acts for the benefit of the enemies of our country will be tried as spies or traitors, and, if convicted, will suffer death.
Ambrose Burnside
#66. The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.
Chanakya
#67. But hereof be assured, that all is not lawful nor just that is statute by civil laws; neither yet is everything sin before God, which ungodly persons allege to be treason.
John Knox
#68. It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
Isaac Watts
#69. Many persons think a prophet must be a good deal better than anybody else. Suppose I would condescend - yes, I will call it condescend, to be a great deal better than any of you. I would be raised to the highest heaven; and who should I have to accompany me?
Sam Smith
#70. Africa, amongst the continents, will teach it to you: that God and the Devil are one, the majesty coeternal, not two uncreated but one uncreated, and the Natives neither confounded the persons nor divided the substance.
Isak Dinesen
#71. Old persons are sometimes as unwilling to die as tired-out children are to say good night and go to bed.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
#72. Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.
Aristotle.
#73. People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off. When someone is healed or released from a life-controlling bondage, everyone takes notice.
Jim Cymbala
#74. I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.
George Bernard Shaw
#75. Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character.
Theodore Roosevelt
#76. I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind of
Descartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.
Blaise Pascal
#77. A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.
Woodrow Wilson
#78. The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.
David Bentley Hart
#79. Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the other hand, it signifies the formal recognition of equality of citizens, the equal right of all to determine the structure of, and to administer, the state.
Vladimir Lenin
#80. Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained.
Anthony Powell
#81. Books and newspapers assume a "common reader" that is, a person who knows the things known by other literate persons in the culture. Obviously, such assumptions are never identical from writer to writer, but they show a remarkable consistency
Edward Hirsch
#82. Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#83. Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
Antoine Rivarol
#84. Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
Protagoras
#85. We are not used to persons who do things simply for the love of god whom they don't believe in.
Ayn Rand
#86. when it came to Missing Persons, Niceville had a stranger abduction rate five times higher than the national average.
Carsten Stroud
#87. True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#89. Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
Socrates
#90. In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.
Frederick Franck
#91. Confident persons hit roadblocks while pursuing their dreams and objectives, but they look for an alternate route rather than giving up and going home.
Stephen Richards
#92. Pride is no respecter of persons. The serious thinkers may be humble, and the careless mystics may be arrogant.
John Piper
#93. Defeatist thoughts handicap persons from elevating their mechanistic life to superior states. The majority of persons consider themselves defeated even before beginning the struggle or the Gnostic esoteric work.
Samael Aun Weor
#94. At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.
Stephen Crane
#95. Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.
Rufus Choate
#96. You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#97. There is an old Scholastic distinction between religious treatises written "de Deo uno" and those written "de Deo trino": between, that is, those that are "about the one God" known to persons of various faiths and philosophies and those that are "about the Trinitarian God" of Christian doctrine.
David Bentley Hart
#98. I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything.
Mother Teresa
#99. Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday
#100. To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions, and Michel duly paid for his clairvoyance.
Barbara W. Tuchman
