Persons Quotes
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.
Apology reminds us that each person (including ourselves) deserves to be respected and treated fairly.
In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself.
Although care must be taken not to kill or injure anyone while these persons are being taken into custody, resistance must be broken!
I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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.
To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.
I am deeply convinced that God is present both in the lives of every person and also in the lives of entire nations.
Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.
If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.
We should praise the qualities we would like to see in others, declare that others possess them already, and then watch how quickly these persons will respond.
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.
Good question to ask yourself: How would the person I would like to be do what I'm about to do?
God is pleased with no music below so much as with the thanksgiving songs of relieved widows and supported orphans; of rejoicing, comforted, and thankful persons.
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
All of us have to make some accommodations and allowances if we are to live with another person.
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.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
Money is either a good or bad influence, according to the character of the person who possesses it.
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace.
It's a tiny industry. Actors all know each other to a point where you always know someone who knows the other person who worked with them.
When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
Those persons who suffer from indigestion, or who become drunk, are utterly ignorant of the true principles of eating and drinking.
