People Quotes - Page 940

The Jewish nation is indeed, the heart of the world and there is no reason for the existence of empires, kings, rulers, masses or systems aside from their reaction to the Jewish people.

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.

A society which has poor people on its streets is a failed society!

I would say most people assume that I'm not very smart or educated or earnest, because I have this image that I'm sort of narcissistic, chasing attention, and wanting people to like me. It makes me laugh because I've done plenty of interviews and when you read the article from beginning to end you can see that I'm not your typical music video model.

You know, people think I named myself Meat Loaf, even though I didn't. And they think anyone who would name himself Meat Loaf couldn't have an IQ higher than four.

All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?".

Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

The particular thing about science is to combine that [the dreams of obtaining power] with a retreat from the world. Other people want to obtain power by going out into the world, but the scientist really wants to obtain power by retreating from the world.

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

It usually takes two people a little while to learn where the funny buttons are and testy buttons are.

I do all that I can to surprise people and make things unpredictable because that is what makes wrestling fun.

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

Paranoid is what people who are trying to take advantage call you in an effort to get you to drop your guard.

What blows me away most is how sure people are of themselves.

Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.

Step into giving. Purpose is about cultivating something within YOU and then GIVING it away to other people.

Most of the people don't get their just due until they ain't here no more.

My ultimate dream is to sow seeds in the desert. To revegetate the deserts is to sow seed in people's hearts.

How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown?

Don't people know that it's the hardest work in the world? Joseph Conrad said that he had loaded hundredweights of coal all day long on a ship in Amsterdam in the wintertime, and that is was nothing to the energy demanded for a day's work writing.

People will support that which they help to create.