People Quotes - Page 416

Constantine, the Emperor, saw something in the religion of Christ's people which awakened his interest, and now we see him uniting religion to the state and marching up the marble steps of the Emperor's palace, with the church robed in purple. Thus and there was begun the most baneful misalliance that ever fettered and cursed a suffering world... When ... Constantine crowned the union of church and state, the church was stamped with the spirit of the Caesars.

I don't go for safe options. Romantically, I go for people who are a pain in the ass.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

People all say that I've had a bad break. But today... today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth.

The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.

You can't kill ideas. But you can sure shoot the people who hold them

I always get into arguments with people who want to retain the old values in painting - the humanistic values that they always find on the canvas. If you pin them down, they always end up asserting that there is something there besides the paint on the canvas. My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there... What you see is what you see.

Popular suffrage is in itself no guarantee of freedom. People can vote themselves into slavery.

I accept the people's will. As a revolutionary, I have no right to disregard the will of the people.

God and the people are the source of all power. I have twice been given the power. I have taken it, and damn it, I will keep it forever.

In the fullness of time, educated people will believe there is no soul independent of the body, and hence no life after death.

We need to be more concerned about who we are before God than our reputation before people.

I simply like guns because you can't shoot people without them.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.

Whenever two people come together and their behavior affects one another, you have etiquette.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

Strong people do not need strong leaders.