Quotes About Person

Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I can't comment on a person who won't comment on me in a positive light.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.

Failing is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night.

Tell us which ideas you promote and we will know which type of person you are.

Beauty is always found in the profound and deepest actions of a person who does things from the heart not from the shallowness of materialism.

The more isolated a person is, the more destructive will be the power of sin over him, and the more deeply he becomes involved in it, the more disastrous is his isolation.

Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

As for me, I'm on a search and have been, I now realize, all my life - to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

I'm on a search—and have been, I now realize, all my life—to find books to help me make sense of the world, to help me become a better person, to help me get my head around the big questions that I have and answer some of the small ones while I'm at it.

The most important decision in Christian theology is to decide whether you will speak of God as a person or as a concept, as a name or as an idea. Talk about God as, to use Paul Tillich's term, "ultimate reality," and you will get a safe, dead abstraction that you can utilize in whatever salvation project you happen now to be working. Name God as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and God will enlist you in God's move upon the world.

Values and Duties Moral value refers to the worth of a person or action, whether it is good or bad. Moral duty refers to our obligation to act in a certain way, whether that action is right or wrong.

For God can have no Delight or Union with any Creature but because his well-beloved Son, the express Image of his Person, is found in it.

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

We seek knowledge only because we desire enjoyment, and it is impossible to conceive why a person who has neither desires nor fears would take the trouble to reason. Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

miré las estanterías de libros. Me da la impresión de que se puede saberlo todo de una persona observando los libros que tiene.

The simplicity of it was disconcerting: a simplicity that made all the other dates they'd had before baffling, those times they'd had to talk or try to be amusing, make an effort to seem like a worthwhile person. The obviousness of it became almost laughable.

I am well known by my friends to be a workaholic - to their often justifiable annoyance. I am therefore keenly aware that such behavior is at best slightly pathological, and certainly in no sense makes one a better person.

Mohr was one of the most talented people on the staff of Time, in print as well as in person—the two are often different.

But though there be naturally a wide difference in point of delicacy between one person and another, nothing tends further to encrease and improve this talent, than practice in a particular art, and the frequent survey or contemplation of a particular species of beauty.

The Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has suggested that the important thing is not a person's identity but his or her identifications. Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life