Isabel Paterson Quotes

The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

Isabel Paterson

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• Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Buddha

• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • People
  • School
  • Done

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • More
  • Dangerous

• Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don't see.

  

  Dan Brown
  • World
  • Great
  • Art

• There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Want
  • Elections

• Regardless of theology or however you see life or relate to worshiping God, as an artist, my job is to tell the truth and then try to connect with these characters and people as honestly and deeply as possible.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• I'm not a glamour boy, and I never get the girl. I like to play old people, because there's something to them. Did you ever see anybody under 30 with any real character or expression in his face?

  

  Walter Brennan
  • People
  • Real
  • Character

• Each and every one of you has the power, the will and the capacity to make a difference in the world in which you live in. … You should go through life knowing, 'I am somebody.'

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• Though I am, as you know, a pacifist by nature, I am not disposed to go to all lengths to meet people who seem to be behaving with utter unreason.

  

  Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
  • People
  • Nature

• The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Society
  • Education

• Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Leadership

• When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • People
  • Together
  • Pretty

• I think people who have all kinds of debilitating mobility issues will benefit from robotic augmentation. That is, even before we get into organ replacement and organ printing and synthetic biology and so on and so forth.

  

  Jason Silva
  • People

• The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Encouraging

• I still get real nervous when I go in front of more than two people.

  

  Phil Knight
  • People
  • Real

• I love the challenge of having one character who is traveling back in time to find someone. Nowadays, the only way we think to find someone is on Facebook.

  

  Colin Trevorrow
  • Time
  • Character
  • Challenge

• A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly, without any interference of the conscious will. This is a paradigm for non-action: the purest and most effective form of action. The game plays the game; the poem writes the poem; we can't tell the dancer from the dance. It happens when we trust the intelligence of the universe in the same way that an athlete or a dancer trusts the superior intelligence of the body.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Game
  • Universe
  • Dancer

• 'Fast & Furious' is Hollywood's 'Dabangg.' It is that big there, so it obviously feels amazing to have played a part in it. The role is small but very interesting. People will see me in full Hollywood accent, and the character is not like typical Indian character.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • People
  • Character
  • Small

• The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.

  

  Isabel Paterson
  • People
  • Power
  • Things