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If you let someone know you appreciate him or her, especially when you're going to disagree, it gets that person's defenses down.
If everybody trusts one another, then the person who didn't prevail will faithfully execute the decision as if it was their idea.
There's absolutely no one in the world that can tell you can't do something. You're the only person that can set that limitation.
A foreign swear-word is practically inoffensive except to the person who has learnt it early in life and knows its social limits.
You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly
When I'm playing somebody, their wardrobe, for me, is completely transformative. You just step into who that person is with that.
The gospel is the proclamation of the person and work of Jesus Christ and how those benefits can be applied to us by faith alone.
I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.
You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.
No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.
You're a grown up, and you get to decide what behaviors affect you for five minutes versus what behaviors change you as a person.
In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.
There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons.
I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.
Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.
How did thie person-someone I'd imagined would be my polar opposite-always seem to find the things that would make me the happiest?
I know that I'm deeply, spiritually, profoundly philosophical and I also know that I'm about the flakiest person you're gonna meet.
I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.
"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."
To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying
I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.
Don't seek to be a person of fame, for even villains can be famous. Instead, be a person of value. Fame fades but value is honored.
Since each person, as an individual, is the not-being of the other, it is never possible to eliminate non-understanding completely.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course, but sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.
They say the average person can't make a living in art... but if you tell me there's something I can't do, that's what I have to do.
When we boldly seek love, love reveals itself to us, and we end up attracting more love. If one person loves us, everybody loves us.
What will I become? Because I won't be me any longer. That will be a relief. I dont want to be the helpless person I've always been.
We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.
But as was so often the case, it was the one person missing who you thought about more than the ones who were right in front of you.
Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
But if your work is your art, a personal reflection of who you are, the only person who can do that better than you, is a future you.
I thought that because I wasn't a sickly person - I never have been - I thought I was healthy. So I assumed health. I didn't have it.
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.
I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly
When you play somebody's life, everything about your likeness, everything about the way you talk, whatever, has to become that person.
there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.
Most of the pathetic scenes in almost everybody's life are scenes unnoted by anyone and totally disregarded by the person in question.
It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.
Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.
Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
...you are defined by how you live your life, not whom you live it with, and certainly not by what you gave up to be with that person.