People Quotes - Page 1459

Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.

I think we're in an era of unprecedented dominance by corporations. I think people understand that deeply; I don't think that's even questioned.

When good-natured people leave us we look forward with extra pleasure to their return.

Most people's first books are their best anyways. It's the one they wanted most to write.

Even this nation (the US) will be on the very verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.

Our people are unemployed and anxious to work for the food which foreigners can give us.

In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Major Major had lied, and it was good. He was not really surprised that it was good, for he had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.

Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion.

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons.

Preachers err by trying to talk people into belief; better they reveal the radiance of their own discovery.

The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves or have listened only to their neighbors to learn what they ought to do, how they ought to behave, and what the values are they should be living for.

People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become satisfied merely with seeing what is said, without going any further. Review and attention, and even forming a judgment, becomes fatigue; and to lay anything before them that requires it, is putting them quite out of their way.

The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare—all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases. He who knows how to listen to its message here discerns the thunder of world history more clearly than anywhere else.

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.