People Quotes - Page 952

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

If people can finally recognize you on radio without being told who it is, thats what you aim for.

My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ.

Thus He whose tender mercies are over all His works hath placed a principle in the human mind, which incites to exercise goodness towards every living creature; and this being singly attended to, people become tender-hearted and sympathizing; but when frequently and totally rejected, the mind becomes shut up in a contrary disposition.

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

People vomitied at my movies; not because of the movie but because they were drunk. I took credit anyway.

I've never not been pleased with one of my albums. I figure because it's spoken word, there will be people who relate to it, and people who don't, so I don't worry about any of that. I've been doing it for over twenty years. I've always written because it was something I had to do, never for the glory.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

There are two areas where you can't stop people misbehaving: eating and sex

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.

We live in a consumer culture, and Black Friday is like the July 4th of that culture. It might be good not to live in this culture, but it terms of what we can do to make people safer at big sales, it seems more useful to try to avoid dangerous crowd conditions.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

When I'm feeling proud of myself, I should remember to ask myself why I think I am of any value at all. I have done nothing that a hundred thousand other people couldn't do, and most of them would probably do it better, and they probably wouldn't feel so self-important about it. I should always be ashamed of myself.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

If people knew how badly animals were treated in today's factory farms, if people knew how completely confined and immobilized these creatures are for their entire lives, if people knew how severe and unrelenting is the cruelty these animals are forced to endure, there would be change. If people knew. But too many of us choose to look the other way, to keep the veil in place, to remain unconscious and caught in the cultural trance. That way we are more comfortable. That way is convenient. That way we don' t have to risk too much. This is how we keep ourselves asleep.

If development was measured not by gross national product, but a society's success in meeting the basic needs of its people, Vietnam would have been a model. That was its real "threat." From the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 to 1972, primary and secondary school enrollment in the North increased sevenfold, from 700,000 to almost five million. In 1980, UNESCO estimated a literacy rate of 90 percent and school enrollment among the highest in Asia and throughout the Third World.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

Integration begins the day after the minds of the people are desegregated.

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

If we can afford it, I personally think we should keep giving people MRIs a lot, so we can spot everything early. Our taxes should keep going towards healthcare so that people can be getting scanned regularly and checked over regularly.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.