Quotes About Persons

I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting.

The Roman law had recognized a practice called precarium, by which persons lived on the lands of another without any written lease or agreement, but as tenants at will.

In the struggle for life, a taste for truth is a luxury – or else a disability: only tormented persons want truth. Man is like other animals, wants food and success and women, not truth. Only if the mind Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness: then it hates its life-cage and seeks further.

...Seek counsel of very pious, disinterested persons, and follow the call of O[ur] L[ord] and the advice of those persons.

And we may see that the severest comminations are not only useful in the preaching of the gospel, but exceeding necessary, towards persons that are observed to be slothful in their profession.

This fleetingness of persons who are not known to us, who force us to put out from the harbour of life, in which the women whose society we frequent have all, in course of time, laid bare their blemishes, urges us into that state of pursuit in which there is no longer anything to arrest the imagination. But to strip our pleasures of imagination is to reduce them to their own dimensions, that is to say to nothing.

What we most care about in the world—and particularly what we cannot help caring about on the unconscious level—influences our fate by shaping us into the sorts of persons we are. Consequently, becoming astute readers of our unconscious can help us to better comprehend why our lives have evolved the way they have.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

Capital Punishment, a penalty regarding the justice and expediency of which many worthy persons - including all the assassins - entertain grave misgivings

Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.

Charity is the cement which binds Communities to God and persons to one another . . .

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

In the opinion of those delicate-eared persons, nothing could be more bitter or intemperate than Paul's language.

News was not just the high doings of important persons, but rather the "shreds and patches" of everyday life, a daily record of the city in all its mottled and disorderly splendor.

Traditionally, Medicare's assurance has been that for the elderly and persons with disabilities that they will not be alone when confronted with the full burden of their health care costs.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

In that confidence, we pledge to continue to be in respectful dialogue with those with whom we disagree, to explore the sources of our differences, to honor the sacred worth of all persons, and to tell the truth about our divisions as we continue to seek the mind of Christ and to do the will of God in all things.

Therefore when you claim yourself to be anything, you have given that claim or quality to God. And your awareness of being, which is no respecter of persons, will return to you pressed down, shaken together, and running over with that quality or attribute which you claim for yourself.

Hospitals are often at the centre of things ('choirs and MPs visit them'), but 'homes are on the margins', so there is often a sense of being 'shut away out of sight; of loneliness'. Old age can push people to the edge of society; dementia often pushes them right out of sight, and then out of mind. They are the missing persons.

If one only aspires to provide a growing number of persons with a growing number of goods, without worrying about the quality of the persons, or of the goods, then capitalism is the perfect solution.

Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.

Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons -- like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.

Balzac knew intuitively the need for invented persons to represent life for us, with an enhanced sense of the odds and stakes of life. Representation for Balzac always touched on the theatrical, offering life bathed in starker, more revealing light.

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ëWhen someone makes a special vow to the LORD involving the value of persons,