Quotes About People

The people on the hill, they say I'm lazy, but when they sleep, I sing and dance.

In 1945 music had a serious purpose; to defy post war depression & revitalize the romantic & hopeful aspirations of an exhausted ppl.

And so each man wants and works, almost automatically, for the approval of his people.

If democracy is the voice of the people, then the AP is its stenographer.

When lawyers are muddled ordinary people win and lose disputes for no good reason. More accurately, my mistake. In short because of intellectual pigheadedness injustice is done. And that is disgraceful.

Balzac's semiotics is all about detection, the need to discover who people really are.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

Se nella mia vita quella donna fosse stata destinata a diventare importante? Credo che sia questo a farmi paura: la casualità di tutto. Persone che per te potrebbero essere importanti ti passano accanto e ne vanno. E tu farai altrettanto. Come si fa a saperlo? ..... Andandomene mi sembrava di abbandonarlo, di passar la vita, giorno dopo giorno, a abbandonare la gente.

Thus it has always been: Only in death do worthless people have worth.

And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.

There's no such thing as knowledge management; there are only knowledgeable people. Information only becomes knowledge in the hands of someone who knows what to do with it.

The Bible is not a Christian owner's manual but a story—a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.

That's Jesus for you. Making people across time upset with him.

God adopted Abraham as the forefather of a new people, and in doing so he also adopted the mythic categories within which Abraham—and everyone else—thought. But God did not simply leave Abraham in his mythic world. Rather, God transformed the ancient myths so that Israel's story would come to focus on its God, the real one.

If there is any cure for thinking of the Bible as a once-told-forever-binding source of information about God and his people, Paul is it. For

Christ is the ultimate example of how God enters the messiness of history to save his people.

I believe these ancient people experienced the Divine. But how they experienced God and therefore how they thought and wrote about God were filtered through their experience, when and where they existed.

the ancient Israelites were an ancient tribal people.

In reading the Bible we are watching the spiritual journeys of people long ago.

Give the people the illusion of democracy, with a few elected councils that've been given power over local trivia, while you control anything that really matters directly through the economy.

Dac? R?zboiul Starflyer îl înv??ase ceva era c? evenimentele îi conduc pe oameni, nu invers.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

Most people who have failed miserably in life itself have one last resort left available to them, they become a politician.

Once achieved, regulation is not automatically maintained. Characteristically, it is lost and regained even for the most capable people.