Persons Quotes
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The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
Jhumpa Lahiri
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As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
Robert H. Schuller -
I was the only person of color in the Senate, and my colleagues were Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and Trent Lott.
Carol Moseley Braun -
Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.
Virginia Woolf -
A shiny ring isn't romantic to me. I think thought and love into what you do for the person you're in love with - that's romance.
Marina Ann Hantzis aTelecine -
It's easy to hear the voices of others and often very difficult to hear your own. Every person you meet is going to want something different from you. The question is: what do you want for yourself?
Beyonce Destiny's Child -
Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.
Aristotle
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I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.
Janet Jackson -
I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.
Erykah Badu -
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.
William Shakespeare -
I'm not a pacifist, but I'm not a violent person. I mean, I have a gun. I shoot guns, but I wouldn't say I love guns. It doesn't work that way for me.
David Rasche -
I love to read nonfiction and memoir, but I'm mostly interested in the piece of writing more than the person.
Alice Mattison -
Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done.
Orlando Aloysius Battista
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The more you let yourself be distracted from where you are going, the more you are the person that you are. It's not so much like getting lost as it is like getting found.
William Stafford -
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The person seeing perfection is the Master.
Baird T. Spalding -
Advise persons never to engage in killing.
Billy the Kid -
Be your own person because no one can take that away from you.
Austin Robert Carlile Attack Attack!
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Generally a wise actor will be very careful about the person to whom he gives that power.
William Mapother -
I'm so fascinated with the study of people and why they are the way they are. That's my research and my archaeology, if you will, when I get a role. I'm so excited to attack a part from every angle of what makes a person a person.
Sara Canning -
There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find.
Nicholas Sparks -
You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.
Rob Zombie