Quotes About People

Victor, if you read this stuff, you can save people in the past from drowning. It's like time is a river, and it's nighttime, and you can hear people calling, Help, we're disappearing! So you stop and listen. That's how you save them.

It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground.

rights are for the people whom we fear or dislike because they are the people who need them.

He loves to hide, but only if you take the time to find him. And while I suspect that's true for most people, only a retard or a kid would admit it.

was more than a warrior's creed, it was a reminder that we are entrusted with certain souls, and that we are beholden in a broader sense, as people, to take care of others.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

Things and riches of this world aren't evil in themselves; what is evil is that we USE people to love THINGS instead of using THINGS to love PEOPLE.

Maybe we're born not knowing what is and isn't valuable. Tribulation and poverty expose need, which forces the disciplines of relationship. Relationship opens the door for love and communion (great riches). Tribulation and poverty force us to rely on people. People are like a field of dirt that contains treasure. Storms wash away the dirt and expose the treasure.

Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is given, because how can you explain the world to a child? So she had used the words. Words call forth and secure that which has gone away. With her lists she had ensured that whatever she had once known would come back

when we understand that the Bible comes to us as a trust both from God and from the people of God. It is the record of holy encounters between people and God, encounters that have been reckoned to be decisive and compelling, and that have been preserved from generation

You know, that's one of the ten thousand things I love about you. You're always looking for the good in people.' 'And you're always looking for the bad?' 'That's what twenty years of being a copper does for you.

He had learned over the years that it was wise to ignore suggestions. Most suggestions came from idiots. Intelligent people kept their thoughts to themselves.

La autoridad de las Escrituras es la autoridad personal del Señor sobre el pueblo al que ha salvado. No es un libro que hable de Dios de la misma manera que el Manual del pescador habla sobre la pesca.

None of this is ever going to change until each of us changes. The change has to come from us, and the object of that change is us. We have to change our hearts. And we have to change our minds. We have to stop thinking in terms of stereotypes and deal with people as people. We have to stop thinking in terms of narrow self-interest and begin to reclaim the idea of the common good.

And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.

The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”

Then Abraham rose and bowed down before the people of the land, the Hittites.

Ishmael lived a total of 137 years. Then he breathed his last and died, and was gathered to his people.

Jacob resumed his journey and came to the land of the people of the east.

and Joseph reduced the people to servitude from one end of Egypt to the other.

Then Joseph said to the people, “Now that I have acquired you and your land for Pharaoh this day, here is seed for you to sow in the land.

Dan shall provide justice for his people as one of the tribes of Israel.

and Aaron relayed everything the LORD had said to Moses. And Moses performed the signs before the people,

Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”