People Quotes - Page 1014

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Growing up there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. Some people are just born with bad wiring.

You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people, but how your liberties can be secured; for liberty ought to be the direct end of your government.

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

The Islamic people, the Arabs, were the ones who captured Africans, put them in slavery, and sent them to America as slaves. Why would the people in America want to embrace the religion of slavers.

People are always asking, "Is this person in front of me the same on the inside as he or she appears to be on the outside? Is there congruence between what's within that person and the words and actions I'm viewing and hearing externally?" Children ask that about their parents; students ask it about their teachers; parishioners ask it about their pastors and priests; employees ask it about their bosses; and in a democracy, citizens ask it about their political leaders.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.

Even though he was afraid to admit it, when he was with her it seemed it was worth doing all those normal things that normal people do.

The grand prize was $10,000, then there was a people's choice award where people could vote online.

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

There can be no place in a 21st-century parliament for people with 15th-century titles upholding 19th-century prejudices.

What I find horrible nowadays is that people are always trying to find a personality for themselves. Nobody bothers about what you might call a painter's ideal... the kind that's always existed... No. They couldn't care less about that.

If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

There are no kinder or better people in the world than those who listen to you when you are 18.

Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty.

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God's throne and dictate to Him as to what we wish Him to do. We do not worship God, nor do we seek to form the mind of Christ. If we are hard towards God, we will become hard towards other people.

The people who influence us most are not those who buttonhole us and talk to us, but those who live their lives like the stars in heaven and the lilies in the field, perfectly simply and unaffectedly. Those are the lives that mould

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

If the legs did provide such an advantage that some of the people are claiming they did, then there would be a lot more amputees using the exact same prosthetic legs I have, running the exact same times I have - and that's not the case.