In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don't keep them.
My style will be management by being on the street, management by walking around. Third persons won't have to tell me what's going on in our city. I'll hear it, I'll see it, I'll touch it myself.
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Let us hold our discussion together in our own persons, making trial of the truth and of ourselves.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged.
I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out.
To punish a man because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like.
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of directly taxing persons and property within any State through a majority made up from the other States.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
No two persons ever read the same book.
Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there.
And in times and places where there was not much persecution, people could become and continue Christians who neither were nor professed to be very devoted persons.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!
The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.
I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?
I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Everything in nature has its own intrinsic charm, as the work of its Creator's hand; but the chief beauty of the whole lies in its suggested relations to humanity. Things announce and wait for persons. The house would not have been thus beautifully built and furnished, except for an expected tenant.
The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of.
Sonia Gandhi and her husband have always been persons I look at with a lot of respect. Of course, one of the reasons we look at India with a lot of sympathy and enthusiasm is Sonia Gandhi. Now she is Indian, not Italian, but she will always represent a myth for Italians.
Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
