Quotes About Person

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.

Motivational interviewing is a collaborative conversation style for strengthening a person's own motivation and commitment to change.

The amount of sleep required by the average person is five minutes more.

When a person is as happy as she was that summer, it is hard for others to be unaffected, and after a time the atmosphere she created began to have its effect on all in the house.

A fallen person who is away from God and who is without God is altogether an embodiment of opinion. It

Death is the thing that differentiates art and life. Art is identical with the idea of permanence. It is a continuity and not an individual spasm. Life is the idea of the person.

In learning about a person, you learn something about the world and about yourself, and if you can handle what you learn, you can get closer, much closer to them.

About time, what I really learned from studying English is: time is different with timing. I understand the difference of these two words so well. I understand falling in love with the right person in the wrong timing could be the greatest sadness in a person's entire life.

A buyer persona profile is a short biography of the typical customer, not just a job description but a person description," says Adele Revella,

He is a very special person, you know." I did know, because he always made sure my milk was warm—but not too hot—before giving it to me.

Given sufficient training, any intelligent person can learn to conduct surveys, but getting people to use the results requires salesmanship of a high order.

When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness or death, the result is a zoonosis.

This brings up yet another, far more important misconception: that being comically generative and having a sense of humor are one and the same thing. The former is among the least important things in the world, while the latter is among the most. One is a handy social tool, the other an integral component of human survival. It bears repeating a third time: Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

don't like this guy. I know it's just a first impression, but those are the kind of impressions I'm most comfortable with. Looking too deeply into a person is tiring and not usually worth the trouble. And in this case, especially since he's the self-identified enemy, I'm going to stick with not liking him.

when a person actually needs something or somebody, that's when you can truly read the gauge that contains character.

No jewels, except hair jewelry," Aunt Hermia was saying. I repressed a shudder. I had never warmed to the notion of wearing a dead person's hair braided around my wrist or knotted at my ears.

Nothing but education defines the future of a person and the future of a nation.

We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you were a year ago? Well, who is? I'm sure not. We change, like swirling clouds around a rising sun.

I am just a broken soul wearing a person as a costume.

How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?