Quotes About Person

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough"

I'm a drag queen. I'm a celebrity trapped in a normal person's body.

Intimacy issues' is code for 'I haven't met the right person.'" "And what is 'trust issues' code for?" Pierce held his gaze. "I'm afraid to believe I've met the right person.

How quickly, how neatly the chaos of a living person could be reduced to an insignificant box.

You can laugh at Christianity, you can mock it and ridicule it. But it works. It changes lives. I should say Jesus Christ changes lives. Christianity is not a religion; it's not a system; it's not an ethical idea; it's not a psychological phenomenon. It's a person. If you trust Christ, start watching your attitudes and actions because Jesus Christ is in the business of changing lives.

The distinction is essential. Fault implies a failure or weakness for which a person should be held to account, if not outright blamed. Misfortune is an unhappy circumstance, something bad that has happened to a blameless good person.

The Perspectives of Psychiatry, Paul R. McHugh and Phillip R. Slavney identify four approaches to a suffering person.

He arrived tentatively at his own idea, that melancholy arose from natural, sometimes beneficent forces. Talking about it in plain human terms was his first step toward claiming his own ground as a person who, through no fault of his own, needed help.

Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power.

You make sure you do something good with your life, you hear? Something that puts more beauty and more kindness into the world. And be a person of courage, my Kate. With a tender heart but a lot tougher hide.

Wisdom is a unique manifestation of God, a catalyst for transformation of the human person's life into one of fight and goodness.

Y eso se volvía más evidente conforme pasaba el tiempo, porque la mejor prueba de que una persona no va a volver es que no vuelva, ¿no?

Cada persona, sin excepción, tiene dignidad y valor a los ojos de Dios, y cada persona necesita y merece nuestra compasión",

England is an empire, Germany is a nation, a race, France is a person.

One school of ancient philosophers, the Stoics, developed a distinctive view of Medea as part of their ethics and psychology. They think that the idea that there are really two distinct forces or motives at work in Medea is an illusion. What matters in this situation is always Medea herself, the person, and it is wrong to think in terms of different parts of her.

A virtue is a disposition which is central to the person, to whom he or she is, a way we standardly think of character.

the argument goes, the same thing can't be thus affected in opposing ways at the same time, so it must be that it is not the person as a whole who is in this contradictory state, but different parts of him which do the pulling in opposite directions.

Emotions are not blind, non-rational forces which can overcome rational resolve; they are themselves a kind of reason which the person determines to act on.

The monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers.

Well, I'll be," she said mischievously. "You might just be a nice person after all." "I'm hardly nice," he scoffed. "Perhaps, but you're hardly cruel, either." -Daphne & Simon

Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindly and absolutely, any older person who wanders past.

I am a people's person, chatty and enthusiastic. My enthusiasm is infectious.