People Quotes - Page 1066

The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, "Why do you look so good at your age?" He'll say, "Because I never let the old man in." And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in.

Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.

Paranoia is a state of heightened awareness. Most people are persecuted beyond their wildest delusions.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

People don't buy from clowns.

The gates of hell will not be able to withstand these people! They are people who will build a new prototype for today, and unlock a Kingdom mentality that hell cannot withstand. They will have centers for gatherings that will be known as Glory Fire Freedom Outposts.

And the more she could imagine this island, the less she liked the real world. The more she could imagine the people, the less she liked any real people.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight. These important stories, we rehearse them for years in our head but never tell. These stories are ghosts, bringing people back from the dead. Just for a moment. For a visit. Every story is a ghost.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

With black people, there are 50 Hitlers over the course of history.

Christians, above all people, should desire that their elected representatives submit to the Constitution, because it is constitutional government that has done more to protect Christian liberty than any governing document ever devised by man.

We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor.

The most stressful and difficult part of steering a large movie is that you are taking on the responsibility of communicating with a very wide audience. You can't ever hide behind the notion of, 'Okay, they just don't get it,' or, 'Certain people just don't get it.' You have to be mindful of the size of your audience, and you have to communicate in a way that lets them in.

People want to see something that shows them you can do what you say. That's the trick.

The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

The scientific evidence to support their belief that inhaling other people's smoke causes cancer simply does not exist.

When you think of a safe and solid arbitration place, you think of Switzerland, Sweden, Canada. Those attributes may be associated with clichés, but I think they resonate with a lot of people and they are a solid base for Canada to co-operate and help others.

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.