Quotes About Person

The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

we should never hesitate to take a decisive position regarding the nature and fate of a type of person, a belief, or an action that the Bible has addressed.

Faith is belief in a person, not facts about the person.

Theological reflection is the most important activity a person can perform.

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand.

It wasn't by accident. I consented to become a weaker person.

Marcus was depressingly certain that there wasn't a Dubious Person within a thousand miles.

The person is the highest creation of God only because God gives it the possibility of love, therefore of refusal.

I stopped walking and faced a small snowman some children had built so that anyone watching would assume I was arguing with it and not with a voice in my head like some crazy person.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

There is a difference between a villain and one who simply commits a crime. The villain is an extremely conscious person and commits a crim consciously, for its own sake.

The porter spends his days in the Library keeping strict vigil over this catacomb of books, passing along between the shelves and yet never paying heed to the almost audible susurrus of desire- the desire every book has to be taken down and read, to live, to come into being in somebody's mind. He even hands the volumes over the counter, seeks them out in their proper places or returns them there without once realising that a Book is a Person and not a Thing.

If a healthy minded person takes an interest in science, he gets busy with his mathematics and haunts the laboratory.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

I never have to worry about another person's response, only how I react to what they say.

In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline.

The more important the title the more self-important the person the greater the amount of time spent on the Eastern shuttle the more suspicious the man and the less vitality in the organization.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

a sick person is not a sick person, but rather a person of worth and value who happens to have some bodily parts that are not functioning well.

circumstances, whether fortunate or unfortunate, are morally neutral. They simply are what they are; what matters is how we respond to them. Good and evil, in the moral sense, do not reside in things, but always in persons.

The medical community now freely admits that in a larger sense a person's attitude is one of the chief factors in determining the effect of all suffering.

deconstructing a person is easier than constructing one.