Quotes About People

He permits, for reasons known only to Himself, people to act contrary to and in defiance of His revealed will. But He never permits them to act contrary to His sovereign will.

The relationship of the sovereign will of God to the freedom and moral responsibility of people is one of those mysteries.

The third truth to keep before us is that the Bible consistently portrays people as making real choices of their own will.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

God never pursues His glory at the expense of the good of His people, nor does He ever seek our good at the expense of His glory.

This is a global fight to get the right people in the right place and we're talking about people with PhDs in engineering, computer science, mathematics.

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.

Auction houses run a rigged game. They know exactly how many people will be bidding on a work and exactly who they are. In a gallery, works of art need only one person who wants to pay for them.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

That's the true spirit of Christmas people being helped by people other than me.

Children are not tings to be molded, but are people to be unfolded.

It never occurred to him to wonder how there could be so many people, so many shifting groups that he only saw once in so small a village. Not matter how many such scenes played out, he didn't wonder -- for Henry had become a very particular sort of person. He had been groomed to be a person who did not ask questions. He had not been told to be that way, but all the same he had been led to it, and now that he was there, he felt a great comfort.

My aunt says that I am naturally curious. That means that I don't need to be taught how to learn. Some people have a disadvantage at the beginning, and they are not curious. These people have trouble learning. It seems like not being curious is the worst thing of all. Curious people aren't necessarily good at learning what you want them to learn, though. They are too busy learning about other things.

Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

These indignities underscore a larger question: When do impossible choices start to tear people—a society—apart?

There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't.

We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow. The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.

I love humanity. It's people I don't like.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

Hitler reacted primarily in a sadistic fashion toward people, but masochistically toward fate, history, the "higher power" of nature.

Nazism is a psychological problem, but the psychological factors themselves have to be understood as being molded by socio-economic factors; Nazism is an economic and political problem, but the hold it has over a whole people has to be understood on psychological grounds.