“We said goodbye with a highball Then I got as high as a steeple But we were intelligent people No tears, no fuss, hooray For us!”
Quote collection
People Quotes — page 1042 of 5018
“For you maybe I'm a fool but it's fun. People say you rule me with one wave of your hand. Darling, it's grand, they just don't understand.”
“When people go to a web page, the thing that they want more than anything else is instant clarity.”
“The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.”
“In general, markets know more than the people who write about them.”
“We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in the Great Depression from the stories I hear people tell. Everybody was poor and so we didnt know that we were any different from anybody else.”
“I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.”
“It's when you are trying to make something that is "authentic" as opposed to real - people who appreciate music for the wrong reasons tend to compartmentalize stuff.”
“L'Arche is not a service institution or a group home. It is a community that exists to reveal God's love. Our people are given to the world to tell others about peace and forgiveness and celebration, to make them aware that in the midst of their brokenness, there is joy; in the midst of their wounded nature, there is healing.”
“People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence.”
“The central question is, Are the leaders of the future truly men and women of God, people with an ardent desire to dwell in God's presence, to listen to God's voice, to look at God's beauty, to touch God's incarnate Word and to taste fully God's infinite goodness.”
“The people who most affected me were the ones who got right in there with me, who cried with me, but who also had a certain authority, who dared to say what needed saying.”
“Asking people for money is giving them the opportunity to put their resources at the disposal of the Kingdom.”
“I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.”
“In other words, first we must call people to communion with God, to intimacy with God, to a sense of belonging. Most people are lost, confused, alienated. They suffer and struggle immensely in relationships. We have to proclaim loudly and clearly in our actions and in our words that God loves us that we belong to him. That's a call to the mystical life.”
“Those who are marginal in the world are central in the Church, and that is how it is supposed to be! Thus we are called as members of the Church to keep going to the margins of our society. The homeless, the starving, parentless children, people with AIDS, our emotionally disturbed brothers and sisters - they require our first attention.”
“Mysticism is for all, not just for a few special people.”
“People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.”
“[...]when two people have become present to each other, the waiting of one must be able to cross the narrow line between the living or dying of the other.”
“Peacemaking is a full-time vocation that includes each member of God's people.”