Quotes About People

In the old days, nature was our people's only school and they needed no other.

Coming back years later, he said that he had seen the cities of the whites and that a single one of them contained more people than could be found in all the Plains tribes put together, and that every one of the wasi?uns' factories could turn out more rifles and bullets in one day than were owned by all the Indians in the country.

The roadblocks to growth and joy come when we forget the bigness of God & instead make people bigger than He is.

Was this what families did? Bared their souls in front of an entire room of people? Their confessions left me raw. These were the kinds of conversations I didn't know how to have.

It's other people who make us wise, and I haven't known nearly enough.

and I wondered at the way we all change, all the outside forces that press and mold and push us into people and things we hadn't planned to be.

I wondered at the way we all change, all the outside forces that press and mold and push us into people and things we hadn't planned to be. Maybe it happened so gradually that by the time we noticed, it was too late to be anything else.

For a nation that despises royalty, he seems eager to flaunt it." "There are many ways to feed people.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter . It's constitutional.

Games are subject to far more scrutiny than network television or Hollywood films and often are condemned by people who do not play them.

Leadership is the art of accomplishing goals through other people.

The world would probably be better if people were put in carriers and cats roamed free.

I understand what you are feeling," he said. "As Socrates showed, love cannot be anything else but the love of the good. But to find the good is very rare. That is why love is rare, in spite of what people think. It happens to one in a thousand, and to that one it is a revelation. No wonder he cannot communicate with the other nine hundred and ninety-nine.

ignorance is like a cow that a lot of people can't stop milkin!

She learned a lot and some of the things she learned were hard to accept. She was made to realize once and for all that this earth on which they lived turning about in space did not revolve, as she had believed, for the sake of little people. "Nor for big people either," she reminded the boy when she saw his secret smile.

The dream of the people, like that of Hermann eighteen hundred years before, was of a German UNITY;

It is much more important to develop people with the expertise to make wise decisions than it is to develop decision-making processes that purportedly think for people. We are also convinced that it is quite possible to develop many people who are able to make wise intuitive decisions.

What is democracy, Lysis?"—"It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

Your people! Six boys and seven girls! You who are worthy to rule a kingdom." "Not unless I am worthy to rule them. Few or many, it's all one, once one has put oneself in the god's hand.

where there is war there's spoil. From this it was not far to roving on adventure. Young men could set themselves up in life; kings could grow rich without hard taxes, which pleased their people;

What is democracy? It is what it says, the rule of the people. It is as good as the people are, or as bad.

I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know.

And it's California, where everything is powerfully strange. Everyone wants it to be home. Everyone left where he or she was from with dreams of transformation. Everyone runs away to California at least once, or at least all the lonely, hungry people do.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.