Quotes About People

The tragedy of this late hour is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. The pulpit can be a shopwindow to display one's talents; the prayer closet allows no showing off.

Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

The people were cuckolds then and they still are. The only difference is that fascism hung only one flag on the people's horns and democracy lets everyone hang one on his own horns and choose his own colour.... But we, my dear boy, walk on the horns of others; like dancers

But, as is sometimes the case with good people, he was perhaps liked more for this little foible than for his good qualities.

A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people and the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.

This is the really incomprehensible side of humanity, people never have time for anything.

The people were less earnest than we, and might think less, but they all looked happy. Supposedly, dying is easier in the south.

Temperee, riante, (comme le sont celles d'automne dans la tres gracieuse ville de Buenos Aires) resplendissait la matinee de ce 28 avril: dix heures venait de sonner aux horloges et, a cet instant, eveillee, gesticulant sous le soleil matinal, la Grande Capitale du Sud etait un epi d'hommes qui se disputaient a grands cris la possession du jour et de la terre.

I want to understand about change--I don't just want to be at the mercy of it. I feel like I'm waking up inside. I want to know about history. I have all this new information about people like me down through the ages, but I don't know anything about the ages.

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who love chocolate, and communists.

up. "The thing you have to understand about people," he says, "is that most of them suck, and you don't want to be like them anyway.

You know, it never occurred to me until afterwards that everybody in these books is a refugee. But everyone is running from drought or flood or civil war. I do think a lot about them. You know, not far from here is a road where refugees of all kinds line the roads, and people go there to pick up a plumber or carpenter or something. This isn't an official thing, you know, but there they are. A friend of mine goes there when she wants anything. They are all very skilled people.

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Most of them are pretty down records, pretty unhappy, pretty confused. Which only reflects how people in general were feeling, I mean really the sense that you get is society running down.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

We should to do it," he said. "Today of all days." "We're accepting congratulations for doing nothing." "We're reassuring the people of continuity in the face of tragedy.

For all that it was a party at Maude Chatwin's house, it was also just a party like any other party. There were pretty people and unpretty people, drunk people and undrunk people, people who didn't care what anybody thought about them and people standing in corners afraid to open their mouths lest somebody look directly at them.

Toxic people cost us our energy and our ability to think clearly. So I'm saying ... let's get the toxic people out.

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done."

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

I urge the Iraqi leadership for sake of its own people... to seize this opportunity and thereby begin to end the isolation and suffering of the Iraqi people.

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.