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Letter "P" » persons
«Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.»
Author: Antoine Rivarol
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
bad, bad person, in a bad way, nines, persons, say something, take ten, talk, talk about, ten, tenth
«No two persons ever read the same book.»
«It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.»
Author: Lawrence G. Lovasik
(Priest)
| About:
Judgement
| Keywords:
absent, absents, as it is, cowardly, defenseless, gossip, gossiping, minded, narrow-minded, narrow, narrow mind, persons, strike, wicked
«If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself»
«Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
integrity, likeable, persons, spite, unswerving
«I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.»
«If you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguised than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names.»
«Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.»
Author: Helen Keller
(Author, Educator)
| About:
Goals
| Keywords:
attained, constitutes, constituting, fidelities, fidelity, gratification, persons, self-gratification, worthy
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Father, grave, gravely, meditated, meditating, old person, persons, suppose, themes
«It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Life,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
one hour, persons, risking
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