People Quotes - Page 456

I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on its point in order to prove the perfidy of the other.

I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

I'm confident in some of the things that I wear, regardless of what other people are wearing.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Good things happen in your life when you surround yourself with positive people.

What I want people to take from this is that it isn't simple. People judge you, people tell you what you should do. You do the best you can.

The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

Many people feel they are powerless to do anything effective with their lives. It takes courage to break out of the settled mold, but most find conformity more comfortable. This is why the opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.

Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.

What I know concerns me. What I don't know concerns me even more. What people aren't telling me worries me the most.

There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual- become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

I believe in the not-too-distant future, people are going to learn to trust their information to the Net more than they now do, and be able to essentially manage very large amounts and perhaps their whole lifetime of information in the Net with the notion that they can access it securely and privately for as long as they want, and that it will persist over all the evolution and technical changes.

Do the unexpected. Take 20 minutes out of your day, do what young people all over the world are dying to do: vote.

Sound unique and commit... the human has to transcend technology and that's what people will hear.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.

Most people that you talk to, they's intelligent. Like I said, "Most people."