The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country.
When you’re making an independent feature, there are so many difficult stages. One, just writing the script is difficult on its own. Then, when you get it to a place where you’re happy with it, great – but then you need to find persons who are willing to produce it, who like the script.
The benefits of Umuganda are not merely economic. The day is intended to build community involvement and strengthen cohesion between persons of different background and levels. One such a benefit is that people can access authorities to articulate their needs and voice opinions on various issues.
Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
The crowning feature of the federal system is the supremacy of the judiciary over all other branches of government in matters relating to the rights of persons and property.
We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years of loving care to persons who may suffer from Alzheimer’s or other debilitating illnesses precisely because they are human persons, not because doing so instrumentally advances some other hidden objective.
The fact that technology makes it so easy to misuse personal information and encroach on a persons privacy has triggered a debate over whether Indias privacy laws are adequate to protect people.
It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing – open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way – that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.
It certainly should not surprise us that a young person without any real stake in a legitimate occupation or career may get into trouble more easily. Such persons readily accept the idea that they have been unjustly deprived of money, status, and opportunity.
But happiness is no respecter of persons.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.
I’m still one of those persons who prefers to wear pants, especially for at-home entertaining.
Remember likewise there are persons who love fewer words, an inoffensive sort of people, and who deserve some regard, though of too still and composed tempers for you.
It might be asked, ‘How much time shall I allow myself for rest?’ The answer is that no rule of universal application can be given, as all persons do not require the same measure of sleep, and also the same persons, at different times, according to the strength or weakness of their body, may require more or less.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
The University has a moral obligation to provide equal opportunities to women, minority persons and all other groups who work or seek to work at Harvard.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
My ideal evening is to have dinner with one person or a few persons, and then be in bed by 11.
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.
A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons’ feelings, a courtesy that’s inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I’m immediately impressed.
Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
I’ve always idolized Jay-Z He’s one of my favorite persons, even before I knew him personally.
The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons? And I hardly believe any of our opponents will have the hardihood to say they are not.
Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.
Jayalalitha cannot be misled about anything. She is one of the most well informed persons today in Indian politics.
It is proper to take photographs or other kinds of pictures of persons to put them before us for sight or remembrance. But it is improper to make pictures and images of God and to take his likenesses therefrom to his great distortion.
At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.
Advice to persons about to marry – don’t.
Society as a whole benefits immeasurably from a climate in which all persons, regardless of race or gender, may have the opportunity to earn respect, responsibility, advancement and remuneration based on ability.
All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons.
I’ll believe in utopia when I meet my first perfect person, and this community is made up of 70,000 imperfect persons.
Judging from the letters I’ve received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes.
Were you a merchant, would you settle yourself in a rich or poor neighborhood? You would not be so blind as to locate yourself among persons who would not be able to purchase your goods. So with nations with whom we trade.
In love, one should simplify, choose persons worthy of their promises and leave them if they don’t keep them.
For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.
I’ve never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It’ll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
Persons whose wagers depend upon how particular selected athletes perform in actual sporting events stand in no different stead than persons who wager on the outcome of any sporting event in which they are not participants.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It’s a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.
The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
In the two novels I have published, it was my fortune at different times, and from different persons, to hear the most unqualified censure long before it was possible for me to hear the voice of the public. But my temper was not altered, nor my courage subdued.
