People Quotes - Page 683

The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.

Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Mountains don't kill people, they just sit there.

I think that if people look deeply enough into their trading patterns, they find that, on balance, including all their goals, they are really getting what they want, even though they may not understand it or want to admit it.

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

The vital function that pets fulfill in this world hasn't been fully recognized. They keep millions of people sane.

Transcending the world does not mean to withdraw from the world, to no longer take action, or to stop interacting with people. Transcendence of the world is to act and to interact without any self-seeking.

Do you really need to mentally label every sense perception and experience? Do you really need to have a reactive like/dislike relationship with life where you are in almost continuous conflict with situations and people? Or is that just a deep-seated mental habit that can be broken? Not by doing anything, but by allowing this moment to be as it is.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Most people think they want more money than they really do, and they settle for a lot less than they could get

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

People would rather believe than know.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

The only logical answer to the question of why Elijah needed to pray is to imply that God has chosen to work through people. Even when it is the Lord himself initiating something, earnestly desiring to do it, He still needs us to ask.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

I'd like to make people who see me in comic pantomime on the screen feel the way Mark Twain makes his readers feel.

People who love literature have at least part of their minds immune from indoctrination. If you read, you can learn to think for yourself.

I'm not stingy. I'm just afraid of being an easy mark. People wouldn't have money long if they didn't ask how much things cost.

I love trade. I'm a free trader, 100 percent. But we [the USA] need smart people making the deals, and we don't have smart people making the deals.

No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

The purpose of terrorism is to terrorize. It's to change the behavior of the people that are being terrorized.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.