Persons Quotes

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time.

In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

a person who gets angry at his own illness is sure to overcome it

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.

To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

Stories in themselves are not automatically good; it has to be the right kind of story told by the right kind of person.

All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Minute and elaborately finished pictures never strongly impress the mind, and are but mere curiosities to gratify persons insensible to higher excellencies.

Cowardice encroaches fast upon such as spend their lives in company of persons higher than themselves.

A prepared person will always have his opportunity.

I am a totally public person.

God has given you every thing you need to reach every person you need to reach.

I'm a very modest person.

No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

A person is what is his life; if that person doesn't modify nothing inside himself, if he doesn't transform radically his life, if he doesn't work upon himself, then he is wasting miserably his time.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.

I'm not a person who carries my emotions on my sleeve.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

I always thought success was from inside, so it was how diversified you were as a person and how cultivated or how much you cultivated yourself.

It's so French to be a cat person.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.

Marriage is about compromise; it's about doing something for the other person, even when you don't want to.

The explorer is the person who is lost.

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?

To affirm that men and women are persons and as persons should be free, and yet to do nothing tangible to make this affirmation a reality, is a farce.

I am not normally a betting person, but I say that putting your money on the American people is about as close to a sure bet as you are going to get.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

I don't get easily bored. I'm not that kind of person.

God never occurs to you in person but always in action.

It must become a right of every person to die of old age. And if we secure this right for ourselves, we can, coincidentally, assure it for the planet.

I'm an affectionate person.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers