So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.
Allen Tate

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.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Don Marquis

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
Thomas Secker

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.
Billy Sunday

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
Lafcadio Hearn

Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
William Hazlitt

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Margaret Halsey

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
Billy Sunday

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
Miguel de Unamuno

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
Millicent Fawcett

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.
George Eliot

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.
George Bancroft

The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
Walter Martin

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
John Lothrop Motley

The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white males older than 16, the number of free white males younger than 16, the number of free white females, the number of other free persons, and the number of slaves.
Tom G. Palmer

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.
Charles Hodge

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin