People Quotes - Page 832

Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?

Everyone is always surprised by how old I am. They think I'm older, but it's always been that way. I'm the youngest of four - maybe you grow up quicker because you just watch the big people.

To some people the impossible is impossible.

Some people always sigh in thanking God.

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.

Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

We spend too much time wondering what others may have thought about our outfit or the comment we made in the small group meeting. We see opportunities to testify about Christ, but we avoid them. We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God's work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

People are often unhappy in the Christian life because they have thought of Christianity, and the whole message of the gospel, in inadequate terms.

With TV, you just have to finish the days and get the episodes out. And it's always going to be an impossible schedule. That's the funny thing with TV that not a lot of people realize.

My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people.

When people begin to understand that whatever they think and feel happens, then the psychic phenomena begin to rise, which is what's happening now.

Leadership is about moving people from where they are to where you hope they'll go.

Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.

I heard it all the time, but I never looked at it that way. People that said I was too small were the ones that helped my career out. They were the ones that said I would never make it, and they're the ones that made me fight that much harder.

People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

The definition of eternity is two people and a ham.