#persons

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#famous #independent #intensity #like #love

Happiness is no respecter of persons. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#persons

All persons harboring or secreting the conspirators or aiding their concealment or escape, will be treated as accomplices in the murder of the President and shall be subject to trial before a military commission, and the punishment of death. ↗

— Edwin M. Stanton

#before #commission #concealment #conspirators #death

Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#civilization #making #persons

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#case #confidential #confidentiality #continue #domain

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ↗

— Helen Keller

#constitutes #fidelity #happiness #idea #many

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#each #failings #forgive #friends #little

...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ... ↗

— John Geddes

#persons #respect #sacred #wise-words #respect

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on. ↗

— Anthony Powell

#ever #felt #few #going #inferior

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished. ↗