Quotes About Person

I am the impossibility of desiring the person you pity. And the petal of the Easter lily—

Nancy began again, and she knew she was going to off-load to Infante the anger she had caught from the kid. Life was just a long game of emotional tag, one bad mood passing from person to person.

To someone who grows up by the stockyards, that smell just smells like air. You don't know what a younger person might someday think of you, and whatever stench we still breathe in without noticing.

We have plenty of time. Averaged over the entire American population, people watch almost as much television as they work. If people don't exercise, it's because they don't want to exercise. Time becomes the scapegoat. Time becomes the scapegoat for all sorts of things, which explains the phrase "If you want something done, ask a busy person.

If you take nothing else from this book, I hope you remember this: Success is possible, even in the midst of a complex and occasionally chaotic life. You do not need to wait for some less-hectic future time to become the person you want to be. With a different perspective, and a focus on doing what you can, you can be that person now.

And he was the first person to use the term "British Empire" to describe his vision.

God is Infinite, and as a person partakes in this Infinite Reality, he or she is also partaking in the infinite variation of this Reality. There's no solid reality as people commonly think of it.

Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.

as if home had never been a place, but had always been this little person whom she'd carried alongside her.

Maybe this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life.

Maybe, she thinks, this is simply what living is: an infinite list of transgressions that did not weigh against the joys but that simply overlaid them, the two lists mingling and merging, all the small moments that made up the mosaic of a person, a relationship, a life. What Bird will learn, then: That his mother is fallible. That she is only human, too.

If you went on neglecting your own tastes like this, did you, in the end, cease to have any tastes? Cease, in fact, to be a person at all, and become merely a labour-saving gadget around the house?

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

A snob, incidentally, I tell them, is interested in a person because they are of high class. An elitist is interested in a person because they are interesting. That's the difference.

The deity they want, is, of course, finite, a person much like themselves, with thoughts and feelings limited and mutable in the process of time.... And for their purpose, what is not this is really nothing.

The relation demanded by religion between man and God must be of a personal character. No man can love a pure abstraction; he might as reasonably fall in love with a triangle or profess devotion to the equator. The God of religion must be a person, and it is precisely that, as a controlling force of the universe, in which modern thought finds it more and more difficult to believe, and which modern science decisively rejects.

At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .

I hope your mamma is quite well?" This unexpected inquiry put me into such a difficulty that I began saying in the absurdest way that if there had been any such person I had no doubt that she would have been quite well and would have been very much obliged and would have sent her compliments, when the nurse came to my rescue.

4but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

Success is the continuing achievement of becoming the person God wants you to be and accomplishing the goals God has helped you set.

Just as this social creation, the state, cannot coherently be limited by reference to rights that are its own invention, and society is fundamentally organized by entities whose reality is society's own construct, so it is with the value of physical objects and human labor, the division of the sexes and indeed the identity of the individual person, subsisting over time as the distinct and ultimate subject of discourse and attribution.

A pessimist's blood type is always B-negative.

I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?

But he's a missing person nobody's going to miss much.