People Quotes - Page 1059

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful.

For the majority of English people there are only two religions, Roman Catholic, which is wrong, and the rest, which don't matter.

In a world where nearly one billion people live near the edge of physical survival the relevance of intentional simplicity by the more affluent people of the world cannot be over estimated.

The psychic phenomena and the number of people involved in psychic phenomena is rising at just an incredible rate - that's a definite indication of the fourth dimension. But it's also a very dangerous time.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

Some people don't like competition because it makes them work harder, better.

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

People who should be the first to recognize the value of an innovation are often the last.

Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.

It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

the truth and value of a theory does not depend on the number of people who are interested in it - otherwise you might compare the number of people who follow the predictions of astrologers in the daily press with those who attend lectures by Einstein, and conclude that astrology was more valuable and true than physics.

One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

When you love people, you see all the good in them, all the Christ in them.

That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.

If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?

Ask God and the angels to help you to meet people who will treat you with respect and love.

The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more. The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.

Something has to change in the world. Without change, young people will have no future.

I realized that every lesson, conference, response, and assignment I taught must lead students away from me and toward their autonomy as literate people.

We should be using our brilliant people, our most brilliant minds to figure a way that ISIS cannot use the Internet. And then on second, we should be able to penetrate the Internet and find out exactly where ISIS is and everything about ISIS. And we can do that if we use our good people.

We need loyal people in this country. We need fighters in this country. We don't need weak people. We have enough of them.

I have friends that are laying in the gutter right now that were rich people and they're no longer rich people because of what the banks did to them.