People Quotes - Page 400

There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it.

I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

No Western nation has to build a wall round itself to keep its people in.

You have a different relationship to your own personal material than you do to other people's. When you go to the bathroom, you're not horrified and shocked. But if you walked in and found someone one else had just been, you probably would be. Your own relationship to these things is slightly different.

I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.

We are nonviolent with people who are nonviolent with us.

People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

No government knows any limits to its power except the endurance of the people.

The tragedy of film history is that it is fabricated, falsified, by the very people who make film history.

I happen to believe that most people - and this is where I differ from many of my contemporaries, or at least as they express themselves - I think that virtually every human being is dramatically interesting. Not only is he dramatically interesting, he is a creature of stature whoever he is.

Surround yourself with like-minded, strong people, use your voices and choose courage over fear.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

It's a weird feeling when people are defining you, and you haven't even defined yourself.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

You've touched people and known it. You've touched people and never may know it. Either way, you have something to give. It is in giving to one another that each of our lives becomes meaningful.

If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

All these people talk so eloquently about getting back to good old-fashioned values. Well, as an old poop I can remember back to when we had those old-fashioned values, and I say let's get back to the good old-fashioned First Amendment of the good old-fashioned Constitution of the United States - and to hell with the censors! Give me knowledge or give me death!