Person Singular Present

Famous quotes containing the words person, singular and/or present:

    I know only one person whom I could count on not to indulge herself in ... conventional falsehoods, and she has never been able, so far as I know, to keep a friend. The habit of literal truth-telling ... is self-indulgence of the worst.
    Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence, Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness.
    —D.H. (David Herbert)