Quotes About People

When Piet asked Maake why he had committed the murders he answered only that he did not like people.

Serial killers are usually such normal people that their communities often react with disbelief.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it or worse, they might.

Ni sabe el pueblo qué es fe ni acaso le importa mucho

Sí, ya sé que uno de esos caudillos de la que llaman la revolución social ha dicho que la religión es el opio del pueblo. Opio… Opio… Opio, sí. Démosle opio, y que duerma y que sueñe.

Não disse que era o vil povo, disse apenas que é o povo português, tal como o vejo: preferem a ordem à liberdade, preferem que alguém decida por eles, em vez do fardo de terem de ser eles a decidirem e baterem-se pelo seu destino.

the life of average people, we find the other side of the glittering coin of gregariousness: the most painful events are also those that involve relationships. Unfair bosses and rude customers make us unhappy on the job. At home an uncaring spouse, an ungrateful child, and interfering in-laws are the prime sources of the blues. How is it possible to reconcile the fact that people cause both the best and the worst times?

It is easier to enhance creativity by changing conditions in the environment than by trying to make people think more creatively.

starting point would be to say that one society is "better" than another if a greater number of its people have access to experiences that are in line with their goals.

Suffering is not bad: It helps you very much. Do you know a novel about happiness? Or a film about happy people? We are a perverse race, only suffering interests us.

There was nothing to be gathered from her letter, more than that he was low and nervous. In those words, of which healthy people think so lightly, what a world of suffering is sometimes hidden!

we should focus on people who don't know Jesus yet, but Jesus himself gave us the model for doing that: Disciple people.

The problem is that we don't have a "missional" problem or a leadership problem in the Western church. We have a discipleship problem. If you know how to disciple people well, you will always get mission. Always.

I have discovered, assuming you are Good People, that you can help more people when you have money. Good People will be good people with or without money. Evil people will be evil people with or without money.

GOOD People are GOOD People. Selfish, Greedy, Self-Centered, and Evil People will always be the same. Money has nothing to do with it.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

Jesus is not vitally committed to our comfort and safety; he is committed to the advancing of his kingdom revolution in the hearts of people everywhere.

Rules and rituals are given to God's people to remind them what God is like and what he's called them to. God's commands are for our good, but they (by themselves) do not make us right with him.

Jesus's summary of the whole law is simply this: love God and love each other. Focusing on externals will never make that happen. Religion can help us act lovingly, but it can't turn us into loving people. Only the power of God can do that.

We the people are the United States of America. Not the military, not Washington, DC, not the president, not the Congress. They all work for the people and by the grace of God. It is only by their will that the federal government exist at all, not the other way around.

let's raise a toast: here's to the Museum of Ordinary People 2.0! And let's hope it doesn't end with us all getting arrested!

God inhabits the praises of His people. And when the King is present, all things are possible. So

love God, love people, serve the world, care for creation, live in the truth, and share the Good News of God's love revealed in Jesus.