Quotes About Person

the church fathers do not provide detailed codes and laws for answering the question of sufficiency and need. Instead, they spend much more time describing the kind of person who can possess and administer goods safely and wisely.

And yet, there is an odd resonance to the discord of his actions: Buffy: "It's so weird…Every time something like that happens, my first instinct is to run and tell Angel. I can't believe it's the same person. He's the complete opposite of what he was." Willow: "Well…sort of, except…" Buffy: "Except what?" Willow: "You're still the only thing he thinks about." —"PASSION"

Hannah Arendt once wrote that the great success of Stalinism among the intellectuals could be attributed to one annihilating tactic. Stalinism replaced all debate about the merit of an argument, or a position, or even a person, with an inquiry about motive.

This revulsion is innate in any healthy person, and does not need to be taught.

Which?" I asked. "Aha, our novice wants to know too much. These are things that only the herbalist must know; otherwise any thoughtless person could go about distributing visions: in other words, lying with herbs.

And remember, the truth that once was spoken: To love another person is to see the face of God.

The infinite is. He is there. If the infinite had no person, person would be without limit; it would not be infinite; in other words, it would not exist. There is, then, an I. That I of the infinite is God.

She was a soul rather than a virgin. Her person seemed made of a shadow; there was hardly sufficient body to provide for sex;

It was ridiculous and embarrassing and inevitable, for it didn't matter that motherhood had kicked the hell out of her and ruined her confidence; it had also swamped her so with love that she was only half a person without her daughter.

Il cuore di una persona traspariva sempre dai dolci che cucinava, e se c'era oscurtità nella sua anima ci sarebbe stata anche nelle sue paste.

Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases

Una persona, en la sociedad, desempeña una determinada función de acuerdo con su capacidad. Y el dinero es la recompensa. Ahora, piensa en una persona que tenga la facultad de enamorarse de alguien. ¿Qué habría de malo en que le pagasen si esa persona se enamorara valiéndose de las facultades que tiene?

I've tried to take the opportunity to be as positive a person as I can be, as positive role model as I can be.

he was actually a key person in Halabi's orbit. His educational background is in physics but he seems to be knowledgeable in pretty much anything relating to technology.

Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?

Gemstones have been used since the beginning by ancient peoples and sometimes even for the right things. The problem is that they're only as good as the person using them.

To bewail the loss of a person we love is a happiness compared with the necessity of living with one we hate.

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Or possibly "I like cake." (She likes cake. This is one of four things I know about her. The others are: 2. Her name is Zuzana, 3. she's in her last year at the Lyceum, so is probably eighteen, which is young but not heinously young, and 4. she can freeze a person's blood with a look. I've seen it happen, though I have not been on the receiving end. She has voodoo eyes, and is more than slightly terrifying.

Our souls are knit. We are one person, James.

I will add that I do not believe his admiration of my person, dazzling through I am, to be sincere. He told me I was a beautiful, sparkling lady.

It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a person. They run around saying no all day, throwing their aliveness at everything to see what it'll stick to. You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.