#persons

I enjoy my relationship with straight men. It's very nurturing. It's very validating to hang out with straight guys and be accepted. So many of us, we were not accepted when we were younger by straight persons in high school. ↗

— Kyan Douglas

#enjoy #guys #hang #high #high school

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

#discharge #done #duty #employed #executed

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#apt #bad #generality #good #impulse

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

#began #believe #bible #ceased #discover

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

#ears #entrusted #gossips #hear #inquisitive

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. ↗

— Aristotle

#alike #attained #best #chiefly #democracy

Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#development #haitians #help #imposed #instead

I think the eyes are very revealing and can expose a lot about a persons mood or character. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#character #expose #eyes #i #i think

All work done mindfully rounds us out, helps complete us as persons. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#done #helps #out #persons #rounds