People Quotes - Page 374

If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws.

There are many things I want, and the only way I will get them is to keep my head down, listen to the right people and work hard

There are some people who always feel happy. They're called psychopaths

If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary. No higher view is known than that of love.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.

Asperger's doesn't define me. It's a condition that I have to live with and work through, but I feel more relaxed about myself. People will have a greater understanding of who I am and why I do the things I do.

I have done more for black people than any other person in the nation, North or South.

When I was a kid, there was no collaboration; it's you with a camera bossing your friends around. But as an adult, filmmaking is all about appreciating the talents of the people you surround yourself with and knowing you could never have made any of these films by yourself.

I still believe in the resilience of the human heart and the essential validity of love;I still believe that connections between people can be made and that the spirits which inhabit us sometimes touch. I still believe that the cost of these connections is horribly, outrageously high... and I still believe that the value received far outweighs the price which must be paid. (From introductory notes.)

Restoring accountability will be one of the major priorities of our new government. Accountability is what ordinary Canadians, working Canadians, those people who pay their bills, pay their taxes, expect from their political leaders.

That's how we do it in the black community; we give back to the people who made us who we are. We never forget that.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

When history looks back I want people to know the Nazis weren't able to kill millions of people and get away with it.

Offer your strengths to others and you'll be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you.

People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

Power just goes to two poles — to those who've got money, and those who've got people.

Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.

Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.