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Quotes About Persons

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
there was great difference between persons and, discretion did not always accompany years nor was youth always with out it
~ Benjamin Franklin
additional flumazenil is unlikely to have an effect. Sedation can return in 1 to 3 percent of persons treated with flumazenil. It can be prevented or treated by giving repeated dosages of flumazenil at 20-minute intervals. For repeat treatment, no more than 1 mg (given as 0.5 mg a minute) should be given at any one time, and no more than 3 mg should be given in any 1 hour.
~ Benjamin James Sadock
When I came to industry, theatre persons were regarded as those people who will only ask questions and will be an annoying factor on the set, and there was no preference given to them.
~ Manoj Bajpayee
Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and position more fully shown than in designating the seat in which each person should sit during public worship.
~ Alice Morse Earle
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
~ John Webster
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
~ Shannon Hale
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
~ Jean-Baptiste Say
We see with what keenness and zeal the frivolous business of Freemasons is conducted, by persons knit together by the secrecy of their union.
~ Adam Weishaupt
the model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way in which persons pursue objectives.
~ Erving Goffman
I have come to believe we should think of knower and known as persons in relationship, where knowing is the relationship. This relationship has covenantal dimensions. By that I mean that the knower pledges her- or himself to the yet-to-be-known, the way a groom pledges himself to a bride.
~ Esther Lightcap Meek
How wonderful to find in living creatures the same substance as those which make up minerals. Nevertheless they felt a sort of humiliation at the idea that their persons contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like white of egg, hydrogen gas like street lamps.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
~ William Shakespeare
But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exits and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
~ Sheridan Le Fanu
Happiness is promoted by associations of persons with similar tastes and similar opinions.
~ Bertrand Russell
So far as I am concerned, I think more of reasons than of reputations, more of principles than of persons, more of nature than of names, more of facts than of faiths.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
~ Dayananda Saraswati
Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
~ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.
~ Frederic Bastiat
The law is the organization of the natural right of lawful defense. It is the substitution of a common force for individual forces. And this common force is to do only what the individual forces have a natural and lawful right to do: to protect persons, liberties, and properties; to maintain the right of each, and to cause justice to reign over us all.
~ Frederic Bastiat
Loneliness is no respecter of persons. It invades the palace as well as the hut.
~ Billy Graham
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
~ Ogden Nash
Evil means, he insisted, corrupt and degrade not only the purposes for which they are undertaken but also the persons who stoop to such means. Overcoming the urge to resort to such means is hardest when one aims to rectify past injustices. It is because 'hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept so rarely practiced that 'the poison of hatred spreads in the world
~ Sissela Bok
Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
~ Socrates