People Quotes - Page 230

Christ desires his mysteries to be published abroad as widely as possible. I would that [the Gospels and the epistles of Paul] were translated into all languages, of all Christian people, and that they might be read and known.

The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.

I am for America because America is for the common people.

If there wasn't something called acting, they would probably hospitalize people like me.

If you can handle the fact that people are going to be mad at you when you do what you think is right, you'll be alright.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

People wonder why they have so little of God when God has so little of them.

Misunderstandi ngs happen because we do not understand that different people have different styles of communication.

I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important.

Some rules are nothing but old habits that people are afraid to change.

One of the most enduring friendships in history - dogs and their people, people and their dogs.

That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.

The history of PR is... a history of a battle for what is reality and how people will see and understand reality.

I'm so misunderstood that people misunderstand me even when I tell them I'm misunderstood.

A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me, that's frightful behaviour.

These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry.

Truth is whatever people will believe.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

America has become the most unequal society among advanced countries, and rich people are now free to spend as much money on political campaigns as they wish.

The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able to tolerate ambiguity and not be driven by fear into a rigid, single-solution approach to problems, who are rational, foresightful and who look for facts; who can draw inferences and can control their behavior in the light of foreseen consequences, who are altruistic and enjoy doing for others, and who understand social forces and trends.

I believe it's true that one person can make a difference. But how much more difference 100 people make, or rather 99.