People Quotes - Page 447

The "kingdom of heaven" to which he referred was the state of God-consciousness, not the beautiful astral heavens that most people visualize, where virtuous souls go after death.

It is far easier to be a Christian in isolation than it is to live out one’s faith in the context of all those other imperfect people who make up God’s church.

If you say three things in a row that make sense, people will vote for you.

The mentally ill frighten and embarrass us. And so we marginalize the people who most need our acceptance. What mental health needs is more sunlight, more candor, more unashamed conversation.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

Leadership is the process of motivating, mobilizing, resourcing, and directing people to passionately and strategically pursue a vision from God that a group jointly embraces.

If I did not speak with people who call me names, I could not engage in politics.

No one can escape death and unhappiness. If people expect only happiness in life, they will be disappointed.

You lose power to the people and circumstances you judge. They capture your attention in the same way that a movie does.

Authentic journalism is telling people something that the government doesn't want them to know.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.

Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

You shall not steal! You shall not kill! Such words were once called holy; before them people bowrd their knees and heads, and removed their shoes. But I ask you: where have there ever been better thieves and killers in the world than such holy words have been? Is there not in all of life itself - robbing and killing? And when such words were called holy, was not truth itself thereby - killed?

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.

The drys seemingly are afraid of the truth. Why not take inventory and ascertain the true conditions. Let us not leave it to the charge of an antiprohibition organization, or to any other private association, let us have an official survey and let the American people know what is going on. A complete and honest and impartial survey would reveal incredible conditions.

Baldness that appears to be normal is a disease in Europe, almost all of them are bald, and that is because of the things they eat; while among the indigenous peoples there are no bald people, because we eat other things.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.

When people are talking about you, it means that you exist.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.