People Quotes - Page 628

From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

People in the secular world have too much to live with, too little to live for.

It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-one believed more than Father Gapon in the bond between Tsar and people.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

When you give, expect nothing from people and everything from Allah.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.

Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

My people have very subtle slang, inflections and ways of saying things that has little to do with words. If you're from the same place, you'll feel the jargon and know exactly what's happening. Same with any neighborhood cat. What he sees and hears and feels and lives makes him what he is. That's what blues is.

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

People talk to me all the time about sexual harassment. This sort of behavior did not only happen in the past. And it's not in just the working class. It's in every industry. It's in the military. It's in politics.

The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.

The people who truly love me and loved me before all of this stuff. You can't ever leave them behind.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.