Quotes About People

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it

One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Personally, I never admired communists because they operate on the theory that human beings are nice people.

Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the early twentieth century than the rapidity with which war was becoming impossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

any one of us can draw the bad card of an aggressive cancer. Good people—doing all the right things—still get sick. It's tempting to want to find something—or someone—to blame.

As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron

No one in this world, so far as I know… has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

Luke's Gospel was clear: Jesus's ministry was essentially liberation on behalf of the poor and the oppressed. I didn't need a doctorate in theology to know that liberation defined the heart of Jesus's ministry. Black people had been preaching and singing about it for centuries.

Through the reading of scripture, the people hear other stories about Jesus that enable them to move beyond the privateness of their own stories.

For most evangelicals, revelation was found in the inerrant scriptures, and one need not look elsewhere. I knew in my gut that God's revelation was found among poor black people.

Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that if they had their war, their people might refuse to fight it.

The clever economists who tell us that we don't need British agriculture and that our farms should be turned into national parks seem to ignore the rather obvious snag that an unfriendly country could starve us into submission in a week. But to me a greater tragedy still would be the loss of a whole community of people like

I thought of the object lesson which I thought he had given me, but in fact it was a lesson of another kind and one which I have never forgotten; that there are countless people like Paul who are not what they seem.

To make up for all I have forgotten, there is this that I have acquired, and I call it sophistication since it is not quite the same thing as learning. It is the flexible armour of doubt in an age when too many people are certain.

I was also puzzled by the vast number of people in history who were put to death because they would not change their religion; indeed, the entire fuss about religion throughout history was inexplicable to a boy

It is significant, he said after a pause, that the English regard slackness as a vice. We, on the other hand, should vastly prefer it to tension. Is there not too much tension in the world at present, and might it be better if more people were slackers?

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad. "I drink to make other people more interesting.

We don't plan on making our life complicated, it just happens, and we don't do it on purpose, and we don't do it to hurt people who love us. It just turns out that way sometimes.

I believe that the measure of our soul is our capacity to love imperfect people." Because there is something perfect to be found in the imperfect.

Words of wisdom. Give life a meaningful moment. Enjoy life we only live once. We meet people and they really don't realize the different made in our lives. Looking to the future is better than looking back. I make my days count. Time is precious. We should live our life to the fullest.

Words of wisdom. Give life a meaningful moment. Enjoy life we only live once. We meet people and they really don't realize the difference made in our lives. Looking to the future is better than looking back. Make your days count. Time is precious. We should live our life to the fullest.

People have called me crazy; but the question is not yet settled, whether craziness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.