Persons Quotes - Page 39

• There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Loneliness, Agreement, Solitude

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Taken, People

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• Trust in the person's promise who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fear, Trust Issues, Promise

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• I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  Babe Paley

  Truth, Trust Issues, Matter

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• Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

  Horace

  Gossip, Ears, Inquisitive

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• There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.

  F. H. Bradley

  Gossip, Scandal, Shock

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley (Aphorism No. 20), 1930.

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• You cannot trust a person until you know where and how he lives

  Paulo Coelho

  Clever, Knows

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• It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Clever, People, Easier

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• The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.

  Shannon Fife

  Retirement, Children, Humorous

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• I was very athletic when I was younger and I am a very competitive person, so I never give up.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Giving Up, Athletic, I Never Give Up

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• If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

  Stephen Shore

  Autism, Mets, Ifs

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• There's a saying within the Asperger community: if you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome, you've met one person with Asperger's syndrome ... Within this condition, beneath this label, the variety of personality, of humor, of behavior, is infinite.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspiring, Autism, Personality

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Recovery, Justice

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• No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

  Jimmy Carter

  Education, Jobs, Opportunity

  Jimmy Carter (2016). “A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• The test of a civilized person is first self-awareness, and then depth after depth of sincerity in self-confrontation.

  Clarence Day

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

  Antonia Fraser

  Justice, Diversity, Culture

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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.

  Geronimo

  Song, Religious, Holiday

  "Geronimo: My Life".

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• Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Self, Justice, Diversity

  Elbert Hubbard (2005). “Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Dark, Rocks, White

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.154, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. 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.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Justice, Diversity

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• My beliefs are now one hundred percent against racism and segregation in any form and I also believe that we don't judge a person by the color of his skin but rather by his deeds.

  Malcolm X

  Believe, Color, Racism

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• It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

  George Orwell

  Home, Sweat, Justice

  The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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• Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

  B. F. Skinner

  Justice, Doe, Behavior

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• I am getting you a coffee machine. Your husband is a horrible person. He lies when he says hello. He cannot keep up with all the lies he tells. Everyone knows he is not to be trusted. Wake up Coffee machine on its way.

  Ari Emanuel

  Husband, Lying, Coffee

  "Irving Azoff's Wife on Ari Emanuel Feud: 'I Wish Ari Success and Happiness'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 26, 2013.

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• A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Clever, Pride, One Liner

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.327, Penguin

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