People Quotes - Page 852

People only get in the afterlife what they have most wanted-either to have God as Savior and Master or to be their own Saviors and Masters.

God relentlessly offers his grace to people who do not deserve it, or seek it, or even appreciate it after they have been saved by it.

Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

I just want to serve people. I know it sounds like a simple cliche.

The great presidents are people who watch out for others.

I could always make people around me laugh. It was more of a defense mechanism more than anything else, because I was a pretty shy guy.

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

Daily absorption in the physical actualities of nature is life as I need it to be: it means I am connected to such large things - sky, sea, hill, the vagaries of weather, the undeniable needs of animals - that I can disappear as a subject of interest, I can exist without self-consciousness. The city is a challenge for me, however thrilling a few days prove, for its insatiable overstimulation and the rarity of quiet. The city makes people bigger than they need to be.

Marx said that religion was the opiate of the people. In the United States today, opiates are the religion of the people.

One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence.

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

May we be people of honesty and integrity trying to do the right thing at all times and in all circumstances.

I share something in common with Norman Rockwell and, for that matter, with Walt Disney, in that I really like to make people happy.

People generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.

The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Wee do freely profess that our Lord the King hath no more power over their Roman Catholics' coonsciences than over ours, and that is none at all ... let people be heretikes, Turks, Jews, or whatsoever, it apperteynes not to the earthly power to punish them in the least measure.

Capitalism makes people unequally rich. Communism makes people equally poor.

If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.

People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.