“People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.”
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People Quotes — page 565 of 5018
“Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope.”
“Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom.”
“It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people.”
“Whenever I am with energetic young people, I feel like a recharged battery.”
“We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.”
“When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.”
“There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.”
“No matter what your choices are, you truly have no control about what people think of you.”
“From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth.”
“Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.”
“In respect to foresight and firmness, the people are more prudent, more stable, and have better judgement than princes.”
“For as good habits of the people require good laws to support them, so laws, to be observed, need good habits on the part of the people.”
“I'm sure it really is hard to be an oncologist, and actually, more and more people are surviving cancer.”
“I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.”
“Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.”
“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.”
“There's a lot of guys who have great technique, people practicing a lot and you hear them, but there's not that many people who when you hear them, you go, "Man, that guy must practice a lot," right? Then you hear Miles Davis play, and you go, "Man, I had a girlfriend like that." That's a whole another level of musicianship.”
“Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?”
“For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.”