Quotes About People

Shekinah" means the glory or the radiance of God dwelling in the midst of his people. It denotes the immediate Presence of God as opposed to a God who is abstract or aloof.

The story is not about the singular virtues of the one being called. The story is about a risk-taking, bold sort of God who reaches in and calls people for divine service, giving them what they need for that service.

One more thing: this way of living is not confined to people in religious orders or those who have special skills in spiritual matters. No, this life is also for ordinary people. People who work in the high-pressure jobs of information technology and finance. People who are constantly dealing with the stresses of raising children and balancing the family budget. People who teach school and work in hospitals and provide social services and so much more. In short, people just like you and me.

Most people are idiots. There's nothing worse than idiots who tell you their opinions.

I close my eyes. "I keep coming back to this one thought: that I know everything about monsters and nothing about people.

Learning is miserable. People are awful. Worrying about them is the worst.

They weren't a particularly bright people and disappeared along with their island in a volcanic mishap.

I taste my espresso. It's good. Dammit. How am I supposed to hate people if they make good coffee?

Historians can set up all the conceptual walls they want, but they should not be surprised when medieval people pass through them freely, like ghosts. Nonetheless,

Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands.

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Why is it you become obsessed with people you don't like that much?

Eventually, most of us figure out that it's people, not nature, who create morality, values, ethics- and even the idea that nature itself is worth preserving. We will live wisely- preserving water, air and everything else intrinsic to the equations we're only beginning to understand- or we won't, in which case nature will fill the vacuum we leave. She is exquisite and utterly indefferent.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

The difference between people and ideas is... only superficial.

Learning to treat people with respect, and learning give them the benefit of the doubt, is one of the core skills that turn a smart architect into an effective one.

Most projects are built by people, and those people are the foundation for success and failure. So, it pays to think about what it takes to help make those people successful.

his legacy, if there is one, is that I try to do my best to see people whole, for who they are and what they've been through. especially those who matters to me

There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.

I've never understood why people said 'in your own words.' Who else's words would I use?

A united people is a smoldering revolution. A divided people is a conquered people.

We're two broken people, aren't we?' [Richelle Bach] He [Justin Ek] nodded. 'That's okay. Broken things usually fit better together.

To be human is to confuse a satisfying story with a meaningful one, and to mistake life for something huge with two legs. No: life is mobilized on a vastly larger scale, and the world is failing precisely because no novel can make the contest for the world seem as compelling as the struggles between a few lost people.

It's so simple," she says. "So obvious. Exponential growth inside a finite system leads to collapse. But people don't see it. So the authority of people is bankrupt.