Quotes About People

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

More than churches full of people, God wants (and the world needs) people full of the Spirit. Let

I wonder what job arises in people's lives that causes them to come to this restaurant to 'hire' a milkshake?" That was an interesting way to think about the problem.

When the organization's capabilities reside primarily in its people, changing capabilities to address the new problems is relatively simple. But when the capabilities have come to reside in processes and values, and especially when they have become embedded in culture, change can be extraordinarily difficult.

That is why it could happen anywhere, given the right ingredients: particular people in government, competing with others- or with each other- over natural and wealth-creating resources.

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.

So I proposed to give the people scientific government…a business administration. An administration that would have run the government exactly as a successful businessman runs his business. The people would have resented it if I had told them they didn't know how to run their affairs. There was only one way to do it…gain control and force it down their throats.

People are like books. Everywhere they're opened, they're read.

Who in their right minds would trust someone who made a profession out of poking around in sick people?

What marked this place as another Dominion was the people in the streets outside, some human, many not, all retreating from the wind or the commotions it carried.

You don't think that room downstairs was made by the Devil, or his wife?" "I don't want to know who made it," Tammy said. "But I know who fed it; who made it important. People. Just like you and me. Addicted to the place.

being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

Moving human cargo in an underworld apathetic to borders and political ideologies, people-smuggling will be the major crime of the twenty-first century.

Real people are messy and complicated and generally inconvenient, but at least they are there

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wished for ourselves and our children?

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel was racist as hell—half the people who worked here probably dressed up like the Klan on weekends—but the way Turner saw it, wickedness went deeper than skin color. It was Spencer. It was Spencer and it was Griff and it was all the parents who let their children wind up here. It was people.

People wore different kinds of chains across their lifetimes, but it wasn't hard to interpret rebellion, even when the rebels wore costumes to deny blame.

You can change the law but you can't change people and how they treat each other. Nickel

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for God to rescue you when it was up to you. Poetry and prayer put ideas in people's heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world.

All he felt now was envy. These people had expectations. Of the world, of the future, it didn't matter--expectation was such an innovative concept to him that he couldn't help but be a bit moved by what they were saying. Whatever that was.

Fear drove these people, even more than cotton money. The shadow of the black hand that will return what has been given.

You can change the law, but you can't change people and how they treat each other.