People Quotes - Page 14

The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

A good city is like a good party - people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.

The major difference between rats and people is that rats learn from experience.

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

Somebody has to stand when other people are sitting. Somebody has to speak when other people are quiet.

Hangout with people who respect you. And people who inspire you.

First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

I am always shocked to discover how many people believe that hardships are a punishment from God! When people face tests or see others facing tests, they assume Allah must be angry with them. SubhannAllah! Remember which people were tested the most: The Prophets! And they were the closest to Allah. Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

But once we realize that people have very different kinds of minds, different kinds of strengths -- some people are good in thinking spatially, some in thinking language, others are very logical, other people need to be hands on and explore actively and try things out -- then education, which treats everybody the same way, is actually the most unfair education.

Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth?

Africa and its people are the most written about and the least understood of all of the world's people. This condition started in the 15th and the 16th centuries with the beginning of the slave trade system. The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people.

If I had to advise parents, I should tell them to take great care about the people with whom their children associate . . . Much harm may result from bad company, and we are inclined by nature to follow what is worse than what is better.

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

Everything I do is for my people.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.

People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values.

People are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.

When the people stand up, imperialism trembles.

Laws should be made to serve the people. People should not be made to serve the laws.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.