Quotes with persons

Quotes 61 till 80 of 127.

  • Walt Whitman Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • P. T. Barnum More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Robert Bresson My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • F. Faber Nobody is kind only to one person at once, but to many persons in one.
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Antoine Rivarol Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • A. W. Tozer One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • E. B. White Our idea of a cultured person is a person who doesn't want to live in a community of cultured persons.
    Every day is saturday
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Ted Cook Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.
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  • Mark Twain Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Ivan Illich School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Schools connect children to their communities. Jobs connect adults to their societies. Persons with autism deserve to walk the same path.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Augustus Hare Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the persons who listen to it.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    Burgundian abbot (1090 - 1153)
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