People Quotes - Page 575

Medicine is for the patient. Medicine is for the people. It is not for the profits.

People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.

There's no possibility for vitality in the church without fidelity to the gospels. If you look at the Churches throughout the world, throughout the Western world, where radical reform has been attempted, the Church has collapsed and almost disappeared. The vitality in the Church, the young people who are here in their tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands possibly, young people who belong, who adhere strongly to the central tradition of Christ and the Church.

We know that when people are safe in their homes, they are free to pursue their dream for a brighter economic future for themselves and their families.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it.

People say I slept with seven miss worlds, I didn't. It was only four, I didn't turn up for the other three

Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

The way in which a group of people solves problems.

On an everyday level, I use alcohol and drugs in general mostly to be in a happier mood, with the people around me.

True, absolute silence and true, absolute love are not different. Absolute silent awareness overflows with simple, fulfilled absolute love. Objects - people, nature, emotions - may or may not appear. Objects are not needed and they are welcomed. The joy of this full silence is uncaused and unlimited. Always here, always discovering itself. It is the treasure, and it is hidden only when we refuse to keep quiet and find out who we are.

What makes me most happy is connecting with others. I love meeting new people, being social, and engaging in empowering discussions.

Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything.

Marriage was contrived for ordinary people, for people who are capable of neither great love nor great friendship, which is to say, for most people--but also for those exceptionally rare ones who are capable of love as well as of friendship.

The state itself becomes more and more identified with the interests of those who run things than with the interests of the people in general.

I think it better to keep a profound silence with regard to the Christian fables, which are canonized by their antiquity and the credulity of absurd and insipid people.

The world needs people who save lives.

I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.

All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.

There's definitely an obstacle in developing a brand for yourself that people can rely on when you're so eclectic.