#persons

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves. ↗

— Don Marquis

#lips #move #persons #read #reading

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#doorstep #effect #events #hell #light

You see it in the many bouncing clothes that are not just pleats. To make them, two or three people twist them - twist, twist, twist the pleats, sometimes three or four persons twist together and put it all in the machine to cook it. ↗

— Issey Miyake

#clothes #cook #four #just #machine

I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. ↗

— Ogden Nash

#been #era #get #going #i

It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#get #never #persons #resentment #seen

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote. ↗

— Lyn Nofziger

#change #educated #electorate #many #might

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

#census #females #first #free #head

American agents... are the only persons authorized to hold councils of a political nature. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#american #authorized #councils #hold #nature

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#doubts #fail #how #learned

In planning an attack, persons have various roles. ↗

— Robert Mueller

#persons #planning #roles #various