People Quotes - Page 1199

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat.

Why is it so many people are afraid to admit they are happy?

I am often disgusted at hearing young people I know, declare that they are afraid of doing this or that, because they MIGHT be killed.

There can be no settlement of a great cause without discussion, and people will not discuss a cause until their attention is drawn to it.

Few people have definitely articulated philosophies of their own. But almost everyone has his own peculiar sense of a certain total character in the universe, and of the inadequacy of fully to match it [to] the peculiar systems that he knows.

Together, people with good hearts and fine minds can move the world.

Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the United States. And the more disease there is, the more political unrest there will be, leading to more Darfurs, which the U.S. will have to pay to fix.

Progress changes consciousness, and when people's consciousness changes, then their awareness of what is possible changes as well - a virtuous circle.

If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.

The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

Sex is a natural function. You can't make it happen, but you can teach people to let it happen.

We always want to see people strive and see the human spirit triumph against adversity. That's what it's all about because that's what we're doing. We're trying to triumph in our lives.

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

I am firmly of the opinion that people who can’t speak have nothing to say. It’s one more thing we do to the poor, the deprived: cut out their tongues … allow them a language as lousy as their life

People don't remember me. Really. It's not a paranoid thing; I just have this habit of slipping through memories. It doesn't bother me all that much, except I guess that's a lie; it does. For some reason, I test very high on forgettability.

Twitter is the only brand of social media that I have ever taken to at all. I like the feeling of having my perception of the world expanded daily, 24/7, by being able to monitor the reactions of 100-and-some people throughout the world that I personally follow so I have some sense of who they are. There has never really been anything like that before, at least in terms of the digestible 140-character bandwidth that Twitter is based on. I am able to wake up, open Twitter, and sort of glance across the psychic state of the planet.

I think I'd probably tell you that it's easier to desire and pursue the attention of tens of millions of total strangers than it is to accept the love and loyalty of the people closest to us.

Laney had recently noticed that the only people who had titles that clearly described their jobs had jobs he wouldn't have wanted.

I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day. That fascinates me, because it seems to be symbolic of something going on in the culture itself, and I also have a sort of innate admiration for the stubbornness it requires to actually make those things physically. It's become incredibly difficult. In North America, we've largely forgotten how to do it.

If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

Music is generally important to blind people, and most of the blind people that I have come into contact, through my parents, music is very special to them.

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.