Quotes on Persons

A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, it must be because you want something, there is something in which you have not succeeded._x000D_ It is shewing your inferiority. If you are bored, on the other hand, it is the person who has tried in vain to please you who is inferior.

It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Hold the person that you love closely if they're next to you The one you love, not the person that'll simply have sex with you Appreciate them to the fullest extent, and then beyond 'Cause you never really know what you got, until it's gone

A very rich person should leave his kids enough to do anything, but not enough to do nothing.

Let us resolve to follow the Savior and work with diligence to become the person we were designed to become. Let us listen to and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit. As we do so, Heavenly Father will reveal to us things we never knew about ourselves. He will illuminate the path ahead and open our eyes to see our unknown and perhaps unimagined talents.

I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.

When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who is shut out, who feels unwanted, unloved, terrified, the person who has been thrown out of society - that spiritual poverty is much harder to overcome. And abortion, which often follows from contraception, brings a people to be spiritually poor, and that is the worst poverty and the most difficult to overcome.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

A poem doesn't do everything for you._x000D_ You are supposed to go on with your thinking._x000D_ You are supposed to enrich_x000D_ the other person's poem with your extensions,_x000D_ your uniquely personal understandings,_x000D_ thus making the poem serve you.

The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

How does light enter a person? Through the open door of love.

Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying.

You are the most influential person you will talk to all day.

A genius is a talented person who does his homework.

A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation