Persons Quotes

Slavery is what slavery's always been: About one person controlling another person using violence and then exploiting them economically, paying them nothing. That's what slavery's about

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

My image is me. I talk for myself. I didn't become this person others wanted me to be.

The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.

You cannot reason a person out of something they were not reasoned into.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

The person who is ahead in the end will have the advantage.

Don't be a person of success, be a person of value.

To keep a person ignorant is to place them in a cage.

The best villains are the nicest guys in person.

I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. I don't like to pretend to be polite. What you see is what you get.

Measure a person by what they do with power.

I'm just an ordinary person who has an extraordinary job.

I just like being a regular person.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

All of a sudden you realise that you are the person who has control of your life.

My original concept was to provide a free encyclopedia for every single person in the world.

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

The only person to ever look good in the back of a 4-seater convertible was Adolf Hitler

Your love for God is only as great as the love you have for the person you love the least.

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

A sane person to an insane society must appear insane.

I've always thought it was about finding the right person. But it's about choosing the right person, isn't it?

I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.

The time is now, the person is you.

No One Is Alone by Stephen Sondheim is all about thinking for yourself and being your own person.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

The heart that is constantly overflowing with gratitude will be safe from those attacks of resentfulness and gloom that bother so many persons.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

I don't know a single person in life that doesn't have conflict.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit.

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.